|
How can I make my mom understand why I use electronics so much?
My mom is always complaining that I'm obsessed with my electronics. She grew up without any so she doesn't understand the usefulness of them.
My high school majors are Web Design and Television Productions and my other teachers prefer it if we email them our homework so that we can't say somebody stole it or that we lost it. So during the school year I did almost all of my homework on my MacBook Pro.
Now that it's summer vacation I have all of the time in the world to use my two phones (that my dad bought me) and my laptop as well as my itouch,tv and ipad.
This is my last summer and because of my moms job she barely ever gets vacations. Also by the time she comes home I've already done everything that I need to so I spend most of my free time on my laptop or using one of my electronics.
She also doesn't let me go anywhere and there isn't that much stuff to do around my house that doesn't include me using some sort of electronic.
I have a job that i'm currently doing but it's also based off of my laptop.
I've tried explaining to my mom why I always have some sort of device in my hand but she just doesn't get it!
She's getting to that point where when she sees me on my laptop or anything else that she gets really angry but I don't have anything else to do except lie around staring at the ceiling.
I do read but I read ebooks on my ipad because my mom doesn't let me go to the library or to any book stores or anywhere at all really.
I do all of the chores around the house too so it's not like I never help out.
In fact tonight I did laundry,made dinner, switched out the dishwasher and took the trash out. While she watched the Casey Anthony Trial on tv.
She then had the nerve to threaten me with taking away my laptop because apparently "I never do anything except sit around on my laptop."
Just now she came in my room and gave me the stink eye and then walked out.
The worst part is that 99% of the time when she's home she just sits around and watches tv so she's no better then me if not worse than me.
How can I get it through her head that as long as she continues to keep me cooped up in the house that I don't have anything to do except use my electronics?
I'm also not fat. I'm actually on the too skinny side so it's not like I need to get off of my electronics and lose weight.
[ ]
Want to answer more questions in the Relationships category?
Maybe give some free advice about: Families?
my mom doesnt understand what i do for a living i in college for catipiller service dealer tech ive got cerified in electrical, engine fundmentals, fuels, hydraulics. one of the biggest tools is the laptop so to show her its important i hooked it up to her truck and shut off 2 cylinders of the six. to teach and explain what i was doing and what the purpose was. all you have to do is show your mom the importance of what your doing and it should make her proud.
]
Your question reminds me of the comic strip Zits.
Not knowing what your mom does for a living it is a little hard to understand her feelings about your use of electronics. What I can say is that for some people your mothers age fall into an age group where electronics came of age after they left school and had to learn deal with the electronic age in the workplace.
For some this was and still is a very traumatic experience. For others they embraced the new technology and learned how to make it work for them. I'm one of those that fall into the latter category. My wife is more like your mother, forced to use technology at work and must be dragged kicking and screaming to use it at home.
My son once had a job Beta testing computer games which he could do at home only having to go to the office infrequently; to write reports or pick up new games. Great job for a college student as he could set his own hours. He just had to meet certain dead lines. For people like my wife and your mother jobs like this don't look like work, they look like play time. It is hard for them to understand programs, what they do and how they need to be tested.
For people like my wife and your mother educating them is the only way to show them that technology is for you what television and books are to them. While television may never go fully away the way it is delivered is changing; the same with books and newspapers. We cannot continue to cut down trees to make book, magazines and newspapers.
I communicating almost exclusively by Email or some form of web based communication, including bill paying. It is faster more cost effective and just plain easier. I have an iPad, I read eBooks on my iPad. I would like to get my wife a Kindle. She is not quite there yet. It will take a little more education and coaxing.
Several years ago I bought her a laptop and got her on facebook. This was a major step forward. Know when she has a question instead of just answering it I show her how to find the answer using a search engine. It is a slow process but she is slowly coming around.
If you want your mother to understand what you do, you are going to have to show her and teach her. You will need bring her into the 21st century if for no other reason as for her not to be left behind as technology advance and takes over those things she does enjoy.
]
More Questions: |