My Skype thread

[Akura]

Try a complicated speech about how you're old enough to learn from your own mistakes, and that if they continue to mollycoddle you, they'd be doing more harm than good.

Try to sound grownup and responsible, do extensive research into Skype and come up with some points that could help your arguement come across as strong, in this area you have an advantage, your parents are ignorant enough not to know any downsides, so you can sparkle them with benefits. The downsides they do know of are fairy tales too, and could easily be disproven.

You could say that you're smart enough to spot internet predators, and that they're far and few, you can even hide your information so no one knows anything about you, anonymity here is your friend.


If the worst comes to the worst, offer to let your dad speak to one of your online friends, show him how harmless and friendly we can be. I'd personally not mind explaining to him how Skype is harmless, and how the Discovery Community is a safe bunch.

You could even offer a compromise, like letting him see some of the boring, Disco-related stuff you get up to on Skype, or you could offer to do more chores for a while to prove you're grown up enough. Be creative and smart, being a kid is the best time of your life.