LesleyPumpshaft wrote:
Basically, I would like to ask what would you do in this situation...
We have parental controls on my son's lappy and we can see what sites are blocked. We now let him take it into his bedroom to play minecraft and use Facebook in private. The school also insists that home work is submitted via their online porthole and that certain things are done online, as it's a 'technical academy' now. Anyway, he has started searching for porn and has been trying to get around it with proxy servers. He has clearly been researching this on Google. So, he REALLY wants to look at porn (if only he put this sort of effort into his homework). So, he has actually managed to download a bit. Then again, I now know why he has suddenly started to spend so much time in his room!
Now, I'm not shocked, and I don't think it's the end of the world - IF - he is looking at normal stuff.
I'm concerned about the seedy side of porn and the potential harm. Even if he doesn't look at it here, he will do at friend's houses no doubt.
Mr Pumpshaft took him aside and told him that if he sees anything freaky, he loses all access to the internet with immediate effect.
Mr Pumpshaft has now got some sort of fancy router that gives him more control over what's accessed.
Do you think this is adequate? I really feel it's inappropriate and intrusive to insist that a 14 year old only uses their laptop under supervision and I don't know whether to talk to him about the nasty side of porn etc...
What would you do?
Let him have unlimited access to the internet in privacy and be done with it. I did with my son at around that age.
He'll have seen it all already anyway.