u/Apart-Hamster-9921

Genuinely, I know everyone can parent their children whatever way they want but my sister works in a school and says theirs kids who have smartphones at literally 6 years old, insane.

It just feels like it’s getting younger and younger, and it’s scary to me how some parents aren’t more concerned about giving their young kids access to the internet, not shaming people who use screen time but if your child is watching TikTok all day, can you imagine what it’s going to their attention span? don’t understand how anyone can rationalise this

I understand if you need to give them a phone without access to the internet to make calls and for emergencies. From the people I talk to this seems like the general consensus but then it’s happening so much. I don't care about being the bad guy at home and not allowing my child a smartphone till they’re at least 13/14 which then I would be monitoring, in the long run I feel I’m going them a favour. I’ve gotten off all social media myself because it’s all crap anyway and I’d rather practice what I preach with my kids.

What age do you think is suitable for a smartphone?

Currently house hunting and don’t really understand the process with a chain, if we go sale agreed on a house with a chain do we wait to survey etc

Currently bidding on a property but just noticed something on the BER Advisor.

When initially viewing the property the estate agent advised that the attic insulation had been upgraded recently but this isn’t anywhere on the ad online. The BER advisory advises the roof/ attic insulation is poor and recommends insulation upgrades.

I would have assumed their recent attic insulation upgrades would have improved the rating to better than poor? It’s not a really old house or anything so I’m just guessing now the estate agent was lying or whatever they did was really minimal and we‘d still have to upgrade it ourselves?

I’ve worked with my company for over 5 years, yesterday we received an email to say from now on for any duration of sickness even 1 day they will be doing a return to work interview with your line manager and HR, “ to help prevent a recurrence“ even if you’ve received a sick cert from the doctor.

Is this a thing? I’ve worked in several different companies over the years never heard of this, think it’s especially strange if you’ve got a sick cert so basically your sickness has been verified by your doctor but the company still wants to “prevent a recurrence“?. I haven’t noticed a major problem over the last few years of people taking the piss with sick leave so it just feels a bit over the top?

Our home is currently on the market, with bids ongoing, we’re noticing a few cash buyers and the agent had said they seem very interested to continue bidding etc. Great, but I know if a cash buyer is the highest bidder (we need to go with the highest bidder as we are looking for a bigger house in a better area so need all the funds we can get🫠), so the whole sale and moving out process will be a lot quicker than what we were anticipating rather than if it was someone who needs to a survey with the bank etc.

All we have sorted is somewhere to stay which is with parents while we try to find another house, with two kids. We wouldn’t have any space there to store anything other than our clothes for the time being.

We have lots of furniture to bring with us. wherever we do move and I’d really like to try keep stuff somewhat maintained / well packed as I won’t have any money left at the end of all this to buy new furniture lol. I’m in north Kildare so looking for some sort of storage facility to store a lot of our big pieces of furniture, can anyone recommend especially if you have needed it for similar situation? and then a moving company if that’s even a thing over here where we could just get our things well packed up and moved without damaging stuff. money money money