Parents and their kids using the internet Options

[Tung]

When you become a parent, and you have a child around the age of 10-14 years old, would you let them go on the internet? I mean I know I did, when I was 13, but I never go around acting like a complete idiot, and I was way more smarter than say 14 year olds nowadays online. That douche (and you guys know who i'm talking about) makes me question why parents allow their idiotic son kids, to go online. Stay back in the Sandbox. No not cB's Sandbox, but literally the playground Sandbox.

[S-Majere]

I like to believe that most parents still do give several large f**ks about their kids.

My parents used to limit my brothers and I to an hour on the computer - that's for internet, games, homework, etc, and that really worked until we each started developing separate web-based interests in the mid-teen years. One of my brothers likes to programme and the other to play online games. I use the internet to update my blog, create designs and post on CB; so naturally we branched out, got separate computers and now have as long as we want online to pursue these interests.

Key words are still filtered through the network, but we're allowed a freedom that I really respect my parents for granting us. There's a lot of scaremongering about the internet - but if a kid has an IQ greater than that of a frozen parsnip I'm betting he or she'll have next to no problems online.

So that's what I hope to do for my children. I'd certainly not limit them.