The 12 year old has already “been seduced”???? I think that’s called rape.
What is a 12 year old doing with a computer in her room? Especially one that has already demonstrated that she can be seduced by paedophiles who are full of it...
Why would a grown man ask a 12 yo to use her computer "to check his email"? Why not ask an adult or does the author have some specific desire to pry into the child's stuff?
buncha hooey
K9 Web Protection - Free Internet Filtering and Parental Controls
Works great. Blocks by category but you can add/remove individual web sites manually.
Also plays a dog bark sound when they attempt to access a site that's blocked. That's helpful.
When you install it you set an administrator password where you're the only one that can disable it or add sites. (however, if your kid's tech savvy they may know how to stop services in Windows)
Once in a blue moon the software will act up and block all Internet connections. If that happens you can just stop/start the K9 service or just reboot the PC.
Although the author of this article makes valid points and good suggestions as to how a parent can control child intenet usage, I agree with some of the other commentators in the forum that the article itself seems contrived. First of all, it seems rather desperate for a grown man, friend of family notwithstanding, to ask a 12 year old if he could use the computer. Couldn’t he wait till he got home? If it was an important email for business, well, don’t those type of jobs always have employees who are glued to their cell phone internet? Evidently, the writer needed to personalize his suggestions and made something up. However, aside from this contrivance, a child should not have a computer. I had the family computer in my bedroom, and when the kids were young, I was in my room while they were surfing the web. I also made full use of AOL parental controls at the time, that prevented them from going on questionable sites. In addition, if the 12 year old in question had already been seduced ( strange word to use) by an older man, then I would be vigilant to prevent anything similar from happening again. Odd story all around.
I have to wonder immediately at J. Grant Swank, Jr.'s insistence on wanting to use a 12 year old girl's computer instead of asking her parents if he can use theirs. If he was doing this just for the purpose of writing this story, he should have made up a story about doing this to his own daughter. By the time my own daughter is 12, I hope she is wise enough to not "completely" trust male friends of the family or any of her uncles with things that only her parents need to be aware of. I realize that J. Grant Swank, Jr. is a writer and has to write or he won't make a living, but in this story he comes across as a CREEP.
I can think of a lot of times they would not want any male even dad in their room.
Unmade beds the need to pick up clothes including underclothes that belong in the wash basket.
Yep at times they were a bit messy but that is kids.
The 10 min to clean up room is not bad.