Did your parents ever take away your phone or computer?

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CrazyGirl2 · Accepted Answer

Oh my god yes! I couldn’t even BEGIN to guess at how many times! Anyway the very LAST time the took my phone away, wouldn’t you “believe” it, but at about 4:pm I was on my way to my one friend who lives in an extreme remote area… I got a flat tire (I guess I must have accidentally run over that knife someone carelessly hammered into my front tire w/ a tool out of the Jeeps trunk compartment thingy)… anyway, I was on an almost deserted road that you need to drive down to get to my friends house, a few people stopped and asked if I needed help but I just left the doors and windows up & locked and said “I’m fine thanks” so at about 11:45pm my friends mom (on her way home from work at the hospital, she’s a nurse) recognized my car and stopped! “OMG! Are you okay? Yes I got a flat and because I pulled it onto the side, the Jack was in mud and just sank in”. “ why didn’t you call for help” she asked “my parents took my phone as punishment!” My parents FREAKING LOST IT! I came came home from school, and after a while I just said I’d be right back, maybe 45 mins, They were concerned when I didn’t come home after the 45mins, very worried when my therapist called to see if I was coming in today, and terrified at sunset when they had no idea where I was! They called all my friends, but this wasn’t a “regular friend” obviously they called my phone, but it rang in moms home office! And they called the police! I just said “Im not the dumbass who took my daughter’s only safety line in cases of emergency as a punishment” (I acted SO UPSET) “So what’s next guy’s, if I misbehave on the boat, will you confiscate my life jacket… anyway, the police need to speak to one of you!” And I headed for my room a deputy responded because I had been reported as missing, and he followed me home, he was also mega cute! Anyway he advised my parents to maybe NOT take a teenage girls phone if she’s going to be driving alone on barely used country roads! It cost me a tire, BUT… they NEVER-EVER took my phone away from me again! I can’t for the life of me remember what I did to lose my phone, put they will NEVER forget the night I went missing! I just thank god I was lucky to have brought some good books w/ me on THAT trip! And YES, I know it was extremely manipulative, but in my defense, I REALLY needed my phone back!

flameaqui · Accepted Answer

Yes they did but when Im in grade 7 I hide my phone in my hiding place where my mom can't find it and luckily she didn't know that Im in my hiding place before I sleep at night I hide my phone 😂. in the past she can find my phone but not anymore😎but now I guess she know that Im studying without her saying it Im lazy when it comes to study but since Im a teen now I habe too not because Im force to do it by myself its because my Aunt challenge me because since we are born in our home country they want My cousins and I to Go study in Canada since My other elder cousins, younger cousins, Aunties and Uncles, all of my grandparents, but exept for 2 since the other one is dead (my grandparents sister) and the other one is in here in the Philippines too but they dont want to come and I dont back away from challenges I dont want to be a scaredy Cat. and the reason why my mum always take away my Phone in the past because I dont study, I only study in the past if she said Im studying and the other reason is to teach me to study on my own not always she will say it to me 😅.

ohshee · Accepted Answer

I wish they would have lol when I was a kid we didn't have those things. If I were to have those things I would be a genius LOL kids don't understand they got the whole world in their hands when they're holding onto their phone they can learn anything and everything
Now as for my kids they got cell phones and computers.
If they did something wrong I'm not going to discipline them or restrict them from anything.
But what I would do is give them more responsibility I don't care what it is Kids R Kids they come to us as one cell each and every day it doubles. They start out trying to communicate because they watch us do it day by day they learn something today they stand up and take that first step and fall down and get back up and do it again and again and again until they get it right but that means they want something that means they're trying to learn something I don't care what it is in this world did they do it's because they seek knowledge in one form of the other sure they do stupid stuff didn't we all I know I did that because they did something I'm not going to restrict them for wanting to learn or going to even try to get away with something he's going to give them more responsibility you don't need to disciplined in a harsh matter you don't need to take away anything from them that teaches in a whole different thing and I'm not into that I want them to keep growing expanding becoming learning

Nomoturtle · Accepted Answer

Oh yeah, seems to me that this is a common tactic. I had a single mother. She'd confiscate and even break things all the time, basically had her own tantrums.
Later I lived in a foster family, another single mother parent. She tried to take my phone once, but I didn't let her. Unhappy that she couldn't resort to force, she sent me to another foster family.
This foster family had a father I couldn't disobey, and they confiscated things too. I'm a little grateful to them for creating some sense of discipline compared to the previous two, and showing me what a family actually looks like.
Spent the last few years of 'childhood' with my actual father. He didn't confiscate anything, but it was too late for him to do anything parentally reinforcing one way or the other.

Parental rules are important. If confiscation is what you're going to use as a punishment, go for it, though I imagine a carrot would almost always work better, unless the point of confiscation is specifically to distance the kid from the phone/laptop.

Apulu_3 · Answer

Not yet now but ones my mom scolded me saying "You aren't capable of handling a phone" when I touched it only for a minute. They don't take my phone but whenever I'm on phone they will give me tasks so I won't see it. For them I shouldn't use phone for entertainment purpose but only studies. I don't mindle up with studies that is why they haven't taken it yet know but they always expect me to study 24/7 than to hold phone for a second. That is why I'm most active at night because I complete that self satisfaction now. I can only use phone for entertainment purpose if I don't have anything else to spend time with and at relatives home and don't have anything to do.

Bluemax · Answer

Cellphones did not exist when I was a kid. Well technically they existed, but *only* to make phone calls. And only rich people and government officials had them. And coverage was extremely limited.

As for computers, they existed, but home computers made their debut around when I was 10 years old. I didn't know anyone who owned one until I was 12 or 13. My own family didn't have one until I was 19 and attending college. Computers existed when I was a kid, but only NASA or aerospace firms had them.

My parents never took away my toys. I don't think they felt they had any right to. They did however restrict my freedom. I would be forbidden to see friends. I would be forbidden to go outdoors, even in the front lawn or in the backyard which had a swimming pool. My parents quickly realized that sending me to my room was something I enjoyed, so they didn't do that.

I am often curious what childhood is like with cellphones and computers. I never experienced that.

wingattebaby16 · Answer

so many times, i lost track.

in Foster Care at 16yo, my foster dad stopped paying the bill on my phone as punishment.

could take pics, but that was it.. no games, no chat, no Face time, no Snap chat, no instagram...

and then he really got on me and gave me a flip phone with limited minutes so he could call me if i was not home when i was supposed to.. sucked.

libsaretards · Answer

Only once as a teenager did I get into trouble outside of defending myself in a fight at school. That was when I shoplifted from the base PX at age 14. She tried to take my phone, but I had a back up phone from a buddy so I let her pretend she took my phone. Of course there was more to the punishment than that, but for the phone specifically I outsmarted my mom.

humanearth · Answer

When I was a kid, they didn't have them yet. Back then we got our asses whipped and sent to our room.  We only had one TV and Stereo combo It kinda looked like this

suisuiola · Answer

Nope, never. It was always my property not theirs so they never took it away. They'd rather take away our TV privileges or something like that. If they wanted us to stop using them, they'd just turn off the wifi or something like that.

EmbraceThePain · Answer

Phone and computer? No

iPod? Yeah

Also, Internet was disabled/had parental controls.

Back when I was that young, my phone was a brick slider phone, before that, a flip phone.

Computer was no more advanced, definitely not what computers are today.

Had one thing on my computer that I enjoyed going on there for and that was Tetris.

Dinklex3 · Answer

No, lol.
After my first phone, i started paying for my own devices and i had straight talk... a prepaid service (which they did last) .
We had a family computer so i didn't have one to be taken away.
It also helps that I was goodytwoshoe, lol.

MTC29 · Answer

Hell, I didn't even have a TV in my room.

The usual punishment was to sit on the edge for the bed for as long as it took for me to agree that whatever I had done was wrong. Imagining that my mother would give in before I did was fanciful: better to give up and get it over with.

ChrisMaster69 · Answer

I never had any of them, so not really an option to take away. mine would take away my sports stuff, football boots, cricket whites,  cut the plug off my record deck. that sort of thing

loves2learn · Answer

I didn’t have a phone or computer growing up. 😂 So, no. I had to use the family landline. And try to intercept it if I thought a boy was calling. Caller ID was novel back then.

beebella · Answer

No, but when I was around 17, I got in trouble after they looked through the computer's browser history and I wasn't allowed to use the internet without their permission for a while. 😂

Brainsbeforebeauty · Answer

Didn't have either growing up.. Took away using landline phone, or you got grounded to your room or from playing outside

lovedejj_xo · Answer

Yes my phone and we’d argue until like 1am about it. Once I turned 16 and happily got a job I bought my own phone and then it made her mad since it was “her house still so she owned it still”…. yea ok. It just progressed to other things which is why our relationship sucks. She was and still is very controlling that’s why we always fought.

Bulletproof04 · Answer

No, I always had my phone on me all the time since I grew up with guy friends, they knew we did some stupid stuff.😂

KellyKOO · Answer

Up until15 , I had limited use of the computer and cell phone. After 15 my parents allowed me total freedom with the understanding that they could check my phone and laptop at anytime, which they never did. Lol

ChiPaPa · Answer

Actually, I didn't have a phone until I bought one around eighteen. Never used a smartphone until fairly recent. Computer, no. Used it mostly for school work. My game system wires were taken a few times, but I mostly did nothing wrong. Never was popular with most groups while growing up.

tatianamay · Answer

Ugh yes, all the time I always get it back though

dragoblack · Answer

I only had the computer rights taken away when evidence Was found that i was looking at porn. Didn't have a phone till I was in 11th grade highschool and it didn't have internet or a camera. It was a small brick phone with the tech stats of a decent calculator

t-8900 · Answer

so back in dem PS2 days dad ended up just taking the power cord and telling me to do better in school. So when he wasn't home I would just go to his closet, grab it and play my video games when he wasn't there. lol

LemiaOfChampions · Answer

Not that i recall personally. They would turn the internet off.

sensible27 · Answer

I think they did yea (h).. but they were very lenient, giving

andreasderjuengere · Answer

No, they didn't.
Mainly, because they would not touch such things anyway.
But my Mom was a modern thinker: she had a table calculator. It would add, subtract, divide and multiply. In less than a second it would give you the result.

Raina_Leigh · Answer

I wasn't allowed to have a phone or use the computer. What I got for punishment? I got literally everything in my bedroom taken away by my mom's husband (I refuse to call that asshole stepdad)... literally everything. He would not let me have privacy. He took my bedroom door off. And me being a teenager at the time...

Jaximus-Lion · Answer

Never had a phone as a kid, and we had a family pc. I got grounded which at the time was a crule punishment. I bought my first cellphone in 2005 whan i was 20 and i bought for my parents too.

Mangospacho · Answer

They took away my phone but I snuck into their house and got it back because they couldn’t figure out my passcode.

midnightmoon05 · Answer

No phones growing up. my kids… not really… just turned off internet… phones cell phone did damage to my daughter… she learned her lesson…

mstbooblover · Answer

Well, in my case not relevant. I'm 67, and when I was young, there were no cell phones nor computers... Still, maybe a good question for younger people.

CaliSixx · Answer

Once upon a time I was depressed and suicidal. My mom decided instead of helping me she would take away all of my electronics because that should automatically make me better

Andres77 · Answer

Nope...
She was disappointed with me and just didn't want to see my face for a few hours.
As a teen.

When I was younger it was the switch and grounded.
We didn't have cell phones in the last century (well, we didn't).

hahahmm · Answer

Ha ha ha. Back in the day, parents didn't take stuff. They just beat your azz. So no.

Adam1978 · Answer

No I didn't misbehave as a kid. And I didn't have a phone. And the only computers we had was used as gameing devices.

TsundereMatrix · Answer

Yep and there was one time after I got my drivers license they took away my car because my friend convinced me to skip class.

NetSapien · Answer

My mom did take away my computer once back in 1983. Disconnecting that beast turned into a nightmare for her and never did it again.

KieranByrne · Answer

Yes, unfortunately not for long! I kind of wish they were taken away for longer, but I am not sure if this would have changed the person I am now!

dustybiker · Answer

No. Always been “an old soul”. I was caught up in trouble a couple times, by association. I argued my points on punishment, and won. 😁

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, and they even threw my books in the trash one time.

OnKoing · Answer

Nope, neither a PC nor a cell phone existed then 😉 So anyone looking for embarrassing stuff on me needs to be wizard. Got house arrest a couple of times is all

douride2 · Answer

When I was a kid we only had one phone in the house a land line. As for a computer they couldn't take away what we didn't have. I got my first computer & cell after I moved out on my own.

genericname85 · Answer

Yeah. All the time they said there's no future in those things. Work at your career. Well. They are wrong. I could have had a career in the things I loved had they not wanted the best for me XD

Slayerrrrrrr · Answer

I remember vividly one afternoon I was killing it on Spiderman 2 on my Xbox and since I didn't do chores my dad walks in only to eject the disc and folds it in half then walks away

jshm2 · Answer

No. I was never that bad around them that it required such treatment.

koolbrz · Answer

until like I was 20, they were shouting at me for it. only you in live feed lol

Diamold · Answer

My gaming console, i remember how painful it was 😂

Jerre · Answer

When I was a kid, we didn’t have cell phones and computers were just becoming more common place

exitseven · Answer

We did not have such devices when I was a kid. We only had one TV and often I was sent to my room after supper with no TV.

TommyMountainFigure · Answer

Nope, although I have taken my parent's computer away... to fix it..

Elliegirl · Answer

No. I got my first cell phone when I went to college.

LookoutBelow · Answer

I was not given a phone and the computer wasn't hooked to the internet.

Jammaa · Answer

Yeah hasn't that happened to everyone as a child? 😂 It would be sad if it happened now though

KatherineJ · Answer

No, because I didn’t get a phone until I was in college. We only had one computer. Obviously, things have changed a lot since then.

Better_off_here · Answer

No but i started to have to pay when the bill became too much money.

Tstrbrainer · Answer

I was smart and always used theirs so that technically they can't take it away from me

poneglyphs · Answer

My phone sometimes but mostly when I did something stupid 😅 My dad used to take away my Playstation controller when I was younger

Singlebimom · Answer

I have bc they have been using it for bad things... cam and taking pictures

BogeyMulligan · Answer

They took away my PS2 when I was a kid are you welsh that’s a beautiful name!

FunkyMonkee · Answer

I never had that problem. They DID take away my bike or my record player.

BobbyC65 · Answer

There was no computers or cell phone to take away back then when I was a kid.

Homer79 · Answer

For me it was TV. Computer wasn’t as big as it was. AOL was new. Cell phone didn’t do what they do now. And when in High School the car phone was the size of a brick.

StrawberryShake · Answer

I never had a phone until I was 18 so they would take away my computer sometimes but not a lot.

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