I just want to go on the record as encouraging all of you who are still living at home to be honest with your parents about your online activities. If they don't want you on this blog, then respect their decision. You can always ask to discuss it with your parents and show them what goes on here but if they say no, then no is the answer.

Webkinz is tons of fun, we all know that. But it is just a game. Homework, chores, sports, friends, activities - they should all come first. Webkinz will always be around, always on - play it during your spare time.

FWIW, Hayley doesn't play the game for tons of time either - no more than 30 minutes a day, if that. She can't even be online on her own computer - it has no internet access and it is even out in public in her playroom. To be online, she has to get one of the two laptops in the house and play with an adult within arms reach. Every site she goes to, we have to look at it and be with her. She has email but it comes to my account.

I only post and play as much as I do because I work online and sometimes I'm just killing time that I'm monitoring websites for work or processes videos, etc.

The quicker you learn the lesson that life is about balance, the better. As you get older, you'll learn to be successful you'll have to find a way to keep things in perspective. Too much of anything isn't healthy.