Safe internet access for kids

[Betty Boop]

Originally Posted by fuzzywuzzy

I don't block anything for my children . I just tell them watch what you look up because you may get more than you bargained for. Which one of my boys did. I prefer to leave it up to them to monitor, they'll have to learn about it one day . If they know how to get to these sites they also learn how to avoid them as well. As they do now, they now know how to be very selective on the net.

You are kidding, wow, I am speechless.

[Bill Sikes]

Originally Posted by fuzzywuzzy

If they know how to get to these sites they also learn how to avoid them as well.

Avoid.... this does not compute.

[Snowfire]

Surely children need to be protected from certain elements of the internet. I'm amazed you give them so much freedom. It makes me cringe to think of the things they could access. Some of it makes even me blush and turn away and I'm hardly the shrinking violet type. I would never let my grandkids access the net without safeguards

[Bryn Mawr]

Originally Posted by CARLA

Pretty much nails it. You have to know what you want to block. There is software out there that will do it for you. You still need to know how to set it up. There are no 100% safe sites in today's world. For little one I would suggest Home - Sesame Street for starters fun and innocent. Then maybe some Disney sites. Your local Zoo's site they are fun for kids.

We find :-

BBC*-*CBeebies*-*Fun and Games

and

CITV: Home

keep our grandkids quiet for hours whilst being guaranteed safe viewing.

[fuzzywuzzy]

See this to me is the problem with the internet. My son (the 14 year old) was always going to be curious about sex. It was going to come in the form of a magazine or DVD from school anyway.........Check your childrens schoolbags for DVD's. one day he got on the computer and found a site that has now scarred him for life, i'm sure. He basically saw more than he was looking for (basically a nude pic) . He hasn't gone out of his way to access that stuff again. Problem solved.
It had the EEEEEWWWOOOOOHHHH factor. How did we know he'd done this . Check your computer and you'll be able to access every image that has come up on the screen. when we had a talk with him about it he used the "revolting " word. we havent found those images since, from either child.


You see kids will find this stuff eventually, even I have found this content when looking up 'Asian recipies'. The first time I found porn was on an outing at a roadside rest stop. Someone had dumped a load of porn mags on the side of the road. We went to look at the magazines dumped and found out more than we bargained for, not knowing what they were. so it can be found anywhere.

[spot]

Fuzzy, check the opening post. The thread's about six year olds.

[fuzzywuzzy]

Oh No they only had Pc's not connected up then. They were both trained for the internet around the age of ten.

[spot]

Originally Posted by fuzzywuzzy

Oh

I wouldn't worry fuzz. The poster came and went, littering the identical post onto half a dozen other sites the same week.

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and on http://forums.techguy.org/web-email/...mail-kids.html except Tech Support Guy pulled the post as spam.

I've never quite come to a conclusion whether this sort of fly-by-night triggering of threads is helpful to anyone or not. If mariojem would like to come back into the discussion - assuming mariojem ever looks at it - at least we'll know we're not responding to a write-only poster.

[fuzzywuzzy]

Don't know about that because even if they are 'fly by nights', at least it's a topic we can still discuss between ourselves.

Do you think it's a survey?

[spot]

Originally Posted by fuzzywuzzy

Don't know about that because even if they are 'fly by nights', at least it's a topic we can still discuss between ourselves.

Do you think it's a survey?

No, but I do think there's a new phenomenon of political activism which involves posing questions as though from uninvolved people in order to get the public's attention focused into a particular area. Where it's party-led I don't think I like it. It's underhand when it's anonymous.