Missing Out
My brother and I −
we’re 14 and 12 −
want to have a
PlayStation 3
(PS3). We would
happily pay for
some of it, but our
parents don’t want
to talk about it. How
can we get them to
change their minds?
We can’t bear being
the only teenagers
missing out!
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• I’m 15 and last summer me and
my brother faced the same
dilemma. He was itching to get a
PS3 ever since it came out. Let
me tell you the only way you can
get your parents to chip in to buy
a PS3, is to beg like you have
never begged before.
Beg like tomorrow will never
come. It may well be your only
chance.
Abdul Kassim, London
• I wouldn’t have a clue what a
PS3 is, but I do know plenty
about skills that will take you
forward into adult life. Bleating
“it’s not fair” is not likely to cut
any ice with adults, but presenting
your case in an informed and
rational way could well do the
trick.
If your parents are reluctant to
even discuss the issue, prepare a
written report to give to them for
consideration and include the
reasons why you would like a
PS3.
Helen Howard, Lincolnshire
• You are not the only teenagers
missing out; the world contains
millions of teenagers who do not
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have many things you take for
granted − like food for example,
let alone a PS3.
Life is not fair to them either,
but in a more life-threatening way.
There is a bigger world out there.
John Bap, by email
• A good way is to persuade your
parents that they can’t really do
without the PS3, rather than
saying everybody else has one.
Make a big point about
learning the value of hard work
through paying your contribution
and promote the other features of
the console, e.g., it doubles as a
CD/DVD player etc.
Failing this, just sulk around
the house until they cave.
Paul Booker, Oxford
•'I would like a second home in
Brazil, preferably on the beach
with a private jet to whizz me
back and forth from London.
I, too, am prepared to pay for part
of it.
When you find a way of
convincing people to buy stuff for
you, let me know.
Richard Cook, by email
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