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My brother keeps using MY TABLET AND LAPTOP!
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If you can't communicate with your mom in a way that shows your feelings you are too distant in the relationship.
But my brother and I (woops not an only sibling 8D) usually share ours well. He'll ask for me to allow him to do whatever after I'm done.
Make him pay you 50 cents to use it.
But my brother and I (woops not an only sibling 8D) usually share ours well. He'll ask for me to allow him to do whatever after I'm done.
Make him pay you 50 cents to use it.
Psychonaut
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could try giving him a set time to use it, and a set time for you to use something from him.
like him cleaning up your room or doing your chores, something along those lines, since he can't do a lot else, considering the age?
free market ftw, btw
or play with/use something else, that he might like. that whole want it because another person has it, kinda thing. not sibling rivalry, more about want want want, or something.
i dunno. good luck. could always hope that he DOES mess something up, that's easily fixed. you could then blow it out of proportion and have some leverage as to why he shouldn't use it.. but I don't know how much that would be considered lying.
grats on having a tablet to begin with, too
like him cleaning up your room or doing your chores, something along those lines, since he can't do a lot else, considering the age?
free market ftw, btw
or play with/use something else, that he might like. that whole want it because another person has it, kinda thing. not sibling rivalry, more about want want want, or something.
i dunno. good luck. could always hope that he DOES mess something up, that's easily fixed. you could then blow it out of proportion and have some leverage as to why he shouldn't use it.. but I don't know how much that would be considered lying.
grats on having a tablet to begin with, too
lolParents. All idiots.MintSwift said:
That and your "I bought it" reason was weak. Should have tacked on something more reasonable to go with it. Like "Because I bought it with my own money and I don't want him breaking or ruining it. It's expensive to repair."
He is 7 By the way;; and If I use my computer in my room, he just barges in, even though my parents made a rule that you have to knock on my door before you enter, and he says stuff like, "Mom said that I can use "the" tablet". My mom thinks that were being selfish if we don't share our stuff.....its like we are giving our room to my little brother because my mom babies him around, and yells at me when I don't give him what I want.d7crab said:
Just say he could break it and that would be more money coming from your parents wallet (I know it's allowance but it's still technically their money). And say he is 7 and should just use one of the many sketch books.
EDIT: If you REALLY want him off, take time and write an essay arguing why you should not share it. If you do it well enough, it should be yours.
EDIT: If you REALLY want him off, take time and write an essay arguing why you should not share it. If you do it well enough, it should be yours.
Eh. The kid is 7, and also your brother -- why not let him use the tablet/laptop? Seriously man, your money or not, if you guys are brothers, you better cut this out or your problems will get much worse as the years go by.
twinkinator
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If you aren't using it, why can't he?
Tell your parents they have to pay for repairs if he breaks it though...
Tell your parents they have to pay for repairs if he breaks it though...
Psychonaut
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they're brother-sister, and the problem is that the brother cries/kicks her off of it, while in the middle of using it.
yes, bulerias is correct, btw.
telling parents they pay for repairs would be one way to make them think twice, i guess, but threatening parens =/= always good
yes, bulerias is correct, btw.
telling parents they pay for repairs would be one way to make them think twice, i guess, but threatening parens =/= always good
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