Because these children are at an age where the parents are responsible for them and their education and sometimes you have to take control of what your children has access to until they’re old enough to understand what they’re looking at.
There’s a wave of homophobia with people at highschool level right now because their parents didn’t bother preventing them from checking right wing propaganda.
You don’t need to strip them of privacy to do that. If they’re too young to understand what they’re looking at just slap on some parental controls to whatever device they’re using. It’s not hard to explain to your children why being alt right is bad. It is hard to convince them you value their privacy after you’ve been spying on them.
Giving kids the illusion of privacy so you can monitor them and punish them for doing things you disagree with is way worse than just not letting them do that thing. Or better yet, why not step the fuck up, do some parenting and explain to your kids why some things are bad.
I don’t think you understand what I’m saying. You start by showing trust in them, if you realize that they do weird stuff you find the source and then act on it. In your case you’re skipping the trust phase and applying parental control from the get go, preemptive discipline is no way to raise a child.
I was responding specifically to a case where one might be worried about what their child might see online. I think it’s totally valid to stop your kid from looking at things that are going to be upsetting to them.
Personally I’d let my kid loose on the internet. When I picked up some questionable information on the internet and shared it with my parents you know what happened. They confronted those views of mine in conversation. They didn’t spy on me to attempt to find out where that came from. And what would even be the point in doing so? They already talked it out with me. It’s not necessary to spy on your kids, those are the actions of someone who is afraid of their children being different to themselves.
I’ll just tell him that’s it’s fine, nothing to be ashamed of. And tell him about sex stuff not just educational like, biology, safety, etc. But also the fun stuff like cosplay, masturbation, etc.
And yeah respect others privacy and don’t do sexual stuff in public and never force anyone. And get at least 10 lol before getting gf.
they’re 8. I used to teach 9-10 year olds and it’s not their fault, they aren’t stupid but they are kids and sometimes the things they do aren’t fully thought through or appropriate and they don’t know better.
You can restrict access to whatever you want to. If you really wanted to you could curate a whitelist of places they could go to but honestly I’m not sure how I feel about that either
Maintaining a denylist of harmful sites is not something any parent has time to do properly. Maintaining an allowlist is time consuming and technical. All some parents hvae in their toolbox is reviewing browser history and I’m not going to fault them for doing what they can to make things a bit safer online for their kid.
Signing up for wizard101 at 10 years old is where my life started going wrong. If only my parents were more vigilant and vetted every link in my search history for hidden satanism
Why do parents go through their children’s search history
Because these children are at an age where the parents are responsible for them and their education and sometimes you have to take control of what your children has access to until they’re old enough to understand what they’re looking at.
There’s a wave of homophobia with people at highschool level right now because their parents didn’t bother preventing them from checking right wing propaganda.
PSA to make sure your kids have not been lured in by Andrew Tates cult
You don’t need to strip them of privacy to do that. If they’re too young to understand what they’re looking at just slap on some parental controls to whatever device they’re using. It’s not hard to explain to your children why being alt right is bad. It is hard to convince them you value their privacy after you’ve been spying on them.
You first need to know that it’s a problem before applying disciplinary measures
Giving kids the illusion of privacy so you can monitor them and punish them for doing things you disagree with is way worse than just not letting them do that thing. Or better yet, why not step the fuck up, do some parenting and explain to your kids why some things are bad.
I don’t think you understand what I’m saying. You start by showing trust in them, if you realize that they do weird stuff you find the source and then act on it. In your case you’re skipping the trust phase and applying parental control from the get go, preemptive discipline is no way to raise a child.
I was responding specifically to a case where one might be worried about what their child might see online. I think it’s totally valid to stop your kid from looking at things that are going to be upsetting to them.
Personally I’d let my kid loose on the internet. When I picked up some questionable information on the internet and shared it with my parents you know what happened. They confronted those views of mine in conversation. They didn’t spy on me to attempt to find out where that came from. And what would even be the point in doing so? They already talked it out with me. It’s not necessary to spy on your kids, those are the actions of someone who is afraid of their children being different to themselves.
Eggactly.
I’ll just tell him that’s it’s fine, nothing to be ashamed of. And tell him about sex stuff not just educational like, biology, safety, etc. But also the fun stuff like cosplay, masturbation, etc.
And yeah respect others privacy and don’t do sexual stuff in public and never force anyone. And get at least 10 lol before getting gf.
Now go play outside or I’ll spank you.
Edit: F me, for not seeing its lemmy shitpost
they’re 8. I used to teach 9-10 year olds and it’s not their fault, they aren’t stupid but they are kids and sometimes the things they do aren’t fully thought through or appropriate and they don’t know better.
Can parental controls block alt right type stuff nowadays?
You can restrict access to whatever you want to. If you really wanted to you could curate a whitelist of places they could go to but honestly I’m not sure how I feel about that either
Maintaining a denylist of harmful sites is not something any parent has time to do properly. Maintaining an allowlist is time consuming and technical. All some parents hvae in their toolbox is reviewing browser history and I’m not going to fault them for doing what they can to make things a bit safer online for their kid.
At 8 years old? To make sure they’re not doing something stupid, like joining lemmy
Signing up for wizard101 at 10 years old is where my life started going wrong. If only my parents were more vigilant and vetted every link in my search history for hidden satanism