Children's Internet Access

How about be a responsible parent instead and educate your kids about the dangers of internet/tech? Why limit the curiosity of teens? Let them explore, but do it responsible/under your supervision. Otherwise they will do it anyway but in the worse possible way and you'll have 0 say in the matter.

Here's an idea, don't give impressionable young children unrestricted internet access if you're worried about this kind of stuff.

Here's an idea: don't let your underage kids on the Internet without supervision.

Some kids only need the honor system, but others, especially younger ones, need hard restrictions. If the parent is reasonable and the kid grows up smart, they’ll be thankful later, which is why kids also get restricted offline.Rough analogies:- Not letting kids buy unlimited candy ~ not giving them unlimited screen time- Preventing your kid from interacting with “bad” kids or going into unsafe neighborhoods ~ blocking “bad” websites- Not letting your kid watch adult shows or go to a

I don’t think this is useful. Just put restrictions on certain websites (perhaps at the router level) and let them explore. Imagine if your parents told you not to touch books until 8th grade? Why do that to a curious child?

We need to simply take away children's access to the unfiltered internet, and we need this to be done by local device parental controls - children get iPhones that allow only a whitelisted part of the internet. We adults need to enforce it and make it a social norm, like you don't buy cigarettes for kids. Then this mass surveillance "for the children" concept can go away, and also the children really shouldn't be exposed to certain information, which we all know it when

You have to raise your kids for the world that will exist when THEY become adults, not the world that existed when YOU became an adult.These things exist and they aren't going away. Kids need to be familiar with them in order to understand the world they will live in. They need to build up tolerances and cooping strategies for spam and online teasing and addiction to it. If you just ban them from it, they'll have no familiarity and no immunity to its temptations. As with everything,

Please don't ban them from the internet. That's what my parents mostly did and I ended up going behind their backs on a device they didn't know was functional and I ended up doing some things I regret now. Talk to your kids. They need to understand where you're coming from and be informed about what's out there. There will always be workarounds for blocking, there's no workaround for mutual respect and consideration.

No smartphones or unrestricted access to the internet. No social media.Have a computer in a common space like the living room for when they want to be online. You don't have to be watching over their shoulder.You could try to keep up with all the shit you have to be wary of your kids encountering online (e.g., age-inappropriate pornography, political extremism, social media "influencers", games with microtransactions, etc.) or you could be proactive and intentional and just

Cool, so don't let them freely browse the internet if you're that worried.