My parenting strategy with tech can probably be described as notifications instead of blocking. Yes I don’t want my kid to use Facebook when they are 7 but if all of her peers have cell phones I don’t want them to be the odd one out. So my plan is to get my network to tell me when the kid goes to Facebook, snap chat, or whatever the new and hip site is going to be then. That way I know it’s time to have the talk about internet and its dangers. At the same time the kid won’t immediately want to bypass my detector because they still get the content they want. And then by the time they are old enough for porn I’ll have the sex talk and remove the detector.
Probably a good strategy. My cousin let his son have a FB account and unlimited internet when his son was 8. By the time he was 9 he was in big trouble. Had his friends over and they were watching porn. The friends told their friends and teachers heard about it at school. You can probably imagine what happened, but suffice it to say they had a visit from the equivalent of CPS.
My parenting strategy with tech can probably be described as notifications instead of blocking. Yes I don’t want my kid to use Facebook when they are 7 but if all of her peers have cell phones I don’t want them to be the odd one out. So my plan is to get my network to tell me when the kid goes to Facebook, snap chat, or whatever the new and hip site is going to be then. That way I know it’s time to have the talk about internet and its dangers. At the same time the kid won’t immediately want to bypass my detector because they still get the content they want. And then by the time they are old enough for porn I’ll have the sex talk and remove the detector.
Probably a good strategy. My cousin let his son have a FB account and unlimited internet when his son was 8. By the time he was 9 he was in big trouble. Had his friends over and they were watching porn. The friends told their friends and teachers heard about it at school. You can probably imagine what happened, but suffice it to say they had a visit from the equivalent of CPS.