we are trying
but it is like pissing into a fire to fight the onslaught of sick slime and porno that stream into our homes via the internet...and TV and radio
for every parental control we can try, there is an evil person who thinks it is just jolly to bypass it
I would have not computer access at all for my preteens but the schools are pushing everything online, books, projects etc, and requiring the kids to use email to send in their assignments, email being another filthy stream .. and yes, we have parental controls and spam filters and they dont catch everything
I bought hard copy duplicates of all online textbooks and workbooks and make my kid do her work hard copy
But I an an anomaly, all little friends (ages 12-13) have facebook, twitter, post pictures, jabber about profane trash and collect the most awful sick depressed people of all ages as “friends”
I really don’t know where we as a society are going once these kids turn 18 and there are no “parental controls”
The gays can do what they want...just stay out of my life. I was approached by one when I was 12. I quit the "Y". Mom never knew why.
I never blocked anything from my kids, I figured that they have to learn how to deal with things because I could not always be around. When they listened to RAP, when they watched those stupid MTV shows, etc. I would challenge them on what they thought was so great about it, we would go round and round. Plus, they grew up being active outdoors, so t.v., computers, video games, etc. really weren’t part of their lives.
My oldest was the hardest but lo and behold at 20, the things I have witnessed and learned about him make me smile. He now hates RAP, he hates the idea of “hooking up”, he believes in commitment and marriage and has strong conservative morals. Butting heads all those years paid off big time.