Taking it to the Streets
Do you/would you monitor your children’s online
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Taking it to the Streets
Do you/would you monitor your children’s online
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I’m glad to see some concern for us circus folk. I trust my children on line, and usually don’t monitor them. I’m more concern about the tigers, they can be intolerant and hurt someone, and since mine are from a tribe on the Amazon makes them a “double t” (tiger targets). I don’t tolerate parents that let their children on line with proper coaching and safety equipment, what’s next blind babies walking over sharks? May 8, 2008, 5:33 pm i, being one of those 15 year old children, have a myspace; a yahoo; and whatever else i want. my parents dont check on it. my parents dont butt in to my business unless they feel its needed. if i give them a reason to believe that im sneaking around, yeah, they check. but other than that, my parents know that if i need them for something i come to them about it; and confront them. they dont feel the need to check up on me or have ANY of my passwords. May 8, 2008, 9:07 am Absolutely May 7, 2008, 10:46 am I agree with most parents that some monitoring is a good thing. I can also tell you people out there that these teens are a lot smarter than we give them credit for. You should brush up on your internet skills to make sure they are not pulling a fast one on you. I know for a fact that there are several websites out there that you can get to through parental controls and firewalls that will let you surf any site you want without leaving a single clue as to what they were looking at. If theses sites are good enough to fool the government firewalls and restrictions, then you can bet that they can fool you. May 6, 2008, 11:27 pm I don't even allow my kids to use the internet. My husband has said the internet is full of nothing but the Devil's handywork. One of the few sites he has okayed is this news site. The fact that the public schools allow childern to view that evil internet is one of the big reasons I home school my kids. Everything a child needs to know can be found in the good book. Amen! May 5, 2008, 4:42 pm always monitor what your kids are doing, or they may end up at ricki's party at the curtis inn. one more reason why i believe in birth control. or for more people to try to win the darwin awards. May 5, 2008, 3:43 pm I have wireless on my laptop and I can log into their computer when they are on thru mine. I can see what they are doing at all times. I have parental controls set up so the computer will only run during set times. My kids know what happens when they try and be smart about sneaking. They lose it for quite some time. There is no myspace or facebook. Yahoo messenger is bad enough. It's called ride your bike over and talk. Call on the phone and talk. Less computer and more exercize.... May 5, 2008, 11:53 am Ricki from MTV, I sure hope you are kidding - you sound ridiculous, not to mention you just admitted on a public forum to breaking the law! AND Roy Jr. "...didn't have no way to figure out...", you sound brilliant. May 5, 2008, 9:28 am ABSOLUTELY! I monitor my children's internet activity with strict rules and consequences of where they can go and who they can communicate with. I also listen in on their phone conversations when I feel there is something going on that I need to know about. It is bad parenting not to! May 5, 2008, 9:22 am To Ricki: You are a pathetic excuse for a parent. No wonder your 15 y/o thought it would be ok to hotel room. Sounds like you're setting a fine example. I predict you will also be a grandma in the near future with views of that sort. I have 3 kids and I don't want them to think I'm cool. I'm Mom, not their friend. We can be friends when they're all grown up & on their own. And to Roy Jr: You are just fooling yourself! Our parents did not need to check up on us because there was not the dangers as there are today. Trust me, even the most trustworthy kid can be led astray. Cyber world is a rough place! May 5, 2008, 7:30 am Yes I tink you should monitor your children online. They are children son to me that means there decision making process isn't all there yet. Until they are adults I will monitor everything. May 5, 2008, 7:02 am After reading several comments regarding the current question, I am beginning to understand that the problem with many of todays teens is not the teens--it is the parents! Set your kids up, then sit in a hotel room and drink alcohol with them--that's teaching them something?? It is okay to allow underage kids to drink as long as they "think your cool"? Our teenage children consider us their best friends--but you can be assured they know the rules, we know where they are, what they are doing and if they break the rules, they know there are consequences. Some of you parents need to wake up and make life easier on "probation officers", "school principals", etc...You are NOT cool by being "one of the teens"--you are just not growing older gracefully!! May 4, 2008, 10:12 pm No way! I have 5 teenage kids and I trust them to not anything stupid on the internet. I figure when I was a teenager my stepdad didn't have no way to figure out what I was doing because the internet hadn't been discovered yet. I turned out fine without someone looking over my sholder so exspect my kids will be fine. There are more important things to do than watching every detail of your kids life. May 4, 2008, 9:27 pm I think the best way to check up on yours is to lure them into a trap. I created a myspace account and joined my 15 yr old daughter as a friend, she didn’t know it was me. I made it sound like I was older and wanted to party with her and her friends, Id provide the booze. They showed up at a room that I had rented in Mt. Gilead, only to find me and my boy friend, they ended up drink with us that night instead of some online creep. I think she thinks that I’m alot cooler than she did befor. May 4, 2008, 10:43 am Please allow me to start by saying it is just as important for each adult to do a personal check of what they personally use the computer for. Do you set a good example for your child? Does the computer become a battle ground? We have a computer in our home and have a teenager. We have our teenager's logon information, they are restricted to what they can access due to parental controls set by us and at anytime we can check a report of when, where and the amount of time for sites they have visited. A computer is like anything else---you set a good example, you have good communication with your children, listen when they talk to you and care about where they are-who they are with and what they are doing--if you know all of the above and the company they keep is with good, clean friends--the computer is really not much of a worry. Be involved in your children's lives--set a good example--they need to know you care and love them. May 3, 2008, 11:52 pm I am a mother to 7 children and all of them have diffrent pages online and i only allow it because i insist on knowing ALL login information!!! No excuses.. archives are set on all as well i do check up on them from time to time and they never know when i will.. If they change passwords and dont tell me they loose the computer for what ever ammount of time i see fit!! May 3, 2008, 1:54 pm You can talk to them about not putting personal info until your blue in the face! these sick people know how to get it out of your child. I advise don't even let them have any access to the internet. May 3, 2008, 12:45 pm I think the computer should be used for buisness perposes and home work! you should block them from doing anything else because they could easily set up another name and you wouldn't know it. So block that garbage! May 3, 2008, 12:39 pm Yes, we do.The computer is in the livingroom & we know the passwords to their MySpace & check it often. May 3, 2008, 8:37 am Yes I would, of course. [I would limit my children’s Internet access] to 1.5 or two hours a day. May 3, 2008, 7:52 am Would I? Yeah. May 3, 2008, 7:51 am I probably would May 3, 2008, 7:51 am I would, yes. I would talk to them about it, [also], I would ... monitor the history. May 3, 2008, 7:51 am Yes ... We keep our computer in a public place, they don’t have computers in their rooms. May 3, 2008, 7:50 am Yes. [My daughter] has a MySpace page [and] she sets it to private, so not just anyone can view it. Other than that I just periodically check in on her and see what she’s doing. May 3, 2008, 7:50 am |
all passwords to emails, and other accounts. Until they are
18 I am responsible for them, and they need to have some
sort of guidance. Kids need to get outside and play, not
sit on the computer for hours on end. If they are doing
research for a project for school that is one thing, but
they do not need to be on for longer than a few minutes at a
time. Period.