'My dad asks my uncle why he gave a tablet to a baby': Hypocritical aunt and uncle chastise family member for buying their college kid an iPad

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    'Entitled aunt and uncle mad my brother gets an iPad'
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    Entitled aunt and uncle mad my brother gets an iPad, but then buy a tablet for their two year old daughter
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    Okay this happened a long time ago, but my extended family is entitled as so you'll see me around a lot. In todays story we will go back to 2011.
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    My uncle (my mom's brother) and his wife were always the kind of people to about anything that people would do with their life. Anyway, back in 2011 my brother was graduating high school and was about to start University, by that time my parents were deciding if they should by him an iPad so he wouldn't have to be
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    carrying heavy books around, he needed to take pictures of the board? He took it with the iPad, browsing information while studying? Browse it in the iPad instead of the computer. Basically using the iPad as some sort of big library for his studies.
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    My dad at the time told my uncle about his predicament, because he had never used an iPad while he studied and he didn't want to waste a couple of hundred of dollars just for it to be treated like a toy or just not used at all. My uncle and aunt immediately
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    flipped over and started saying that buying an iPad or any kind of tablet was a waste of money and that my brother wouldn't do with that.
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    My brother was upset, he wanted his iPad, he thought that carrying an iPad and a notebook around was better than carrying a bunch of books, calculator, many notebooks and sometimes a laptop around. Anyway, a couple of months passed, we are in November my brother started university in September (if this is
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    necessary, in my country unless the university is in another state, people usually stay with their parents while studying). On November we went to my uncle and aunt's apartment to celebrate my cousin's birthday, at that moment it was her second birthday.
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    My cousin is about to get fussy until my uncle gets a tablet out of nowhere and gives it to her. My dad asks my uncle why he gave a tablet to a baby and my uncle says he discovered that with a tablet my cousin doesn't get fussy while on planes (they used to travel a lot when my cousin was a baby).
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    We are talking and stuff and my aunt decided to take pictures, she then takes another tablet, my mother asks her about her old digital camera, my aunt just said that it was old and she needed something new.
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    That day none of us said a thing, we just went back to our house after celebrating that birthday and didn't say a thing. The next day my dad took my brother to get him his iPad.
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    My brother did used his iPad for university, it was one or two games, but it had majorly books or engineering related apps. On Christmas, the dinner was on my parents house (as always) and the moment my brother took his iPad my aunt and uncle went crazy, stating that my dad just
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    wasted money and that my brother would just use it to play games to which my mom stone cold replied with "like your two year old daughter?" They went silent.
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    Anyway, they tried to badmouth my brother's iPad every chance they could, but my parents learned to not take my uncle seriously.
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    loquella88 Love how they praise the iPad as a substitute parent but not as the tool it's meant to originally be used as.
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    Titanicgirl1480 I'm more concerned that your parents would listen to them instead of the son who would benefit from the iPad
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    tryintobgood Do as I say, not as I do. I'd be asking Aunt and Uncle which cult they belong too. Yoda says "The hypocrisy is strong with this one"
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