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Yeah sometimes. I am a night owl by nature and I have been this way since I was born. It drove my mother nuts and I barely made through school, I am now 36 years old. I sleep in the morning from about 5am to 10am.

I have been busy here lately building a website for a client and have been popping in here when I can to read the latest news and thoughts on the case. I do wish I did not have to read so much bickering between people here on the ES Thread, it is really causing me to loose interest in the case. Oh well it time to go back to work on the website :-) Take Care...!

Very good thoughts about kids' rooms. That is exactly my thinking as well. I knew enough people growing up who had their own TV's in their rooms. And as you say, nowadays some kids' rooms lack only a kitchen to be a private apartment. And check this out: with some of these people with the multi-wing houses, I've heard them refer to "the door the kids use." Their own door? LOL! If one of us had tried to get to the door to sneak out, it would have been like a prison break, probably only lacking the big searchlights!

"Everyone" has their own computer, say my kids. Also their own TV, and on and on. Sure--so those kids can sit and play computer games 23 or so hours a day. BTW, in my opinion, that's what most kids do when they get unlimited access--not surf the web, although some teenagers, particularly girls, do go to chat rooms a lot. I almost had a fit when I found out that the calculator that someone "just had to have" for math, can also be used for little games. It's hard to get them away from those games!

As for our 2 TV's, my spouse really wants the cable. Otherwise I don't think I'd bother, I'd get over it. I know people who can well afford it who do not have cable; their kids are so ashamed, LOL! The "parent" thing you use to block certain channels? The kids periodically use it to block each other's favorite channels. We end up with things like ESPN blocked, and only one person knows the code. It's terrible when they forget what code they used. One time the kids decided WE and Oxygen were icky, and blocked them. That caused a big stir!

As for their seeing something gross on TV, well, the rooms with the 2 TV's are not private, so anyone can, and does, walk in at any time. Ditto for the computer. That's the only way.

Some people WANT the kids to be in their own private wing. I can see wanting a break from the chaos sometimes, but everyone needs to be in common areas in the evening, why have a family if they don't even know each other? If people don't want to raise 'em, they shouldn't have 'em!