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Plea to be unbanned / Re: Plea to be un-banned
« on: October 05, 2015, 03:26:02 PM »
Hi there,
This is CreamofWheat's mom, and I would like to further plead the case for my 10 year old daughter. As a mom of three I greatly appreciate all the monitoring you do on the server of create such a wonderful environment that children like my son and daughter can safely enjoy. I understand how much work it is. And while I fully support the temporary bans for being not careful enough about replanting I do feel a permanent band is a bit harsh.
I know she has been banned for the same thing several times, and I am not excusing her actions, but please even you must see that these are not done with malicious intent or blatant disregard for the rules. Instead I ask that you see them as that of a child who missed replanting an item or two through shear accident. We have fairly strict time rules about screen time at our house, so some the blame is mine as I know she feels rushed to exit the game when her timer rings. In speaking to her, she is deeply devastated by the ban as she did not realize she missed replanting. I know she checks any public farms she used as I have seen her do this as I stand over her tapping the timer.
Again, I realize this has happened several times (one of which was the cause of a server delay), but the first few were that of a child learning to navigate such a system and rules for the first time in her life at the age of 9. I am not asking to lift a ban, make even a month long, just the permanent aspect of it.
I have looked at other permanent bands, and they seem to me to be much higher in the level of offence, both in intent and action. She is a child and as such does and will make mistakes, the same ones, over and over and over again, as the she learns and develops strategies to be more consistent and detailed about her work. I am not a MineCraft player and as such cannot give her tips how to prevent missing replanting. Please if you have suggestions for techniques/methods that she can use which will help her in identifying areas needing replanting she would love that.
So in closing, I hope I have conveyed that replanting issue is not that of a careless teenager but that of a very hard working, conscientious s girl, who for some reason keeps missing replanting despite her best efforts. Like yourselves I strongly believe in consequences. A consequence a child can learn from, not a punishment that does not fit the crime, as I feel that creates cynicisms and disillusionment. And that is not a way for any child to be.
I thank you for your time and further consideration.
A loving Mom
This is CreamofWheat's mom, and I would like to further plead the case for my 10 year old daughter. As a mom of three I greatly appreciate all the monitoring you do on the server of create such a wonderful environment that children like my son and daughter can safely enjoy. I understand how much work it is. And while I fully support the temporary bans for being not careful enough about replanting I do feel a permanent band is a bit harsh.
I know she has been banned for the same thing several times, and I am not excusing her actions, but please even you must see that these are not done with malicious intent or blatant disregard for the rules. Instead I ask that you see them as that of a child who missed replanting an item or two through shear accident. We have fairly strict time rules about screen time at our house, so some the blame is mine as I know she feels rushed to exit the game when her timer rings. In speaking to her, she is deeply devastated by the ban as she did not realize she missed replanting. I know she checks any public farms she used as I have seen her do this as I stand over her tapping the timer.
Again, I realize this has happened several times (one of which was the cause of a server delay), but the first few were that of a child learning to navigate such a system and rules for the first time in her life at the age of 9. I am not asking to lift a ban, make even a month long, just the permanent aspect of it.
I have looked at other permanent bands, and they seem to me to be much higher in the level of offence, both in intent and action. She is a child and as such does and will make mistakes, the same ones, over and over and over again, as the she learns and develops strategies to be more consistent and detailed about her work. I am not a MineCraft player and as such cannot give her tips how to prevent missing replanting. Please if you have suggestions for techniques/methods that she can use which will help her in identifying areas needing replanting she would love that.
So in closing, I hope I have conveyed that replanting issue is not that of a careless teenager but that of a very hard working, conscientious s girl, who for some reason keeps missing replanting despite her best efforts. Like yourselves I strongly believe in consequences. A consequence a child can learn from, not a punishment that does not fit the crime, as I feel that creates cynicisms and disillusionment. And that is not a way for any child to be.
I thank you for your time and further consideration.
A loving Mom