Best Managed for Children of all ages?

[Deleted54170User]

I have only been visiting a couple of forums on the Internet. Since I don't have any children I wondered if a poll would tell everyone how the Internet forums are doing as far as being a good form of child care.

 

Should parents go back to home care traditions which keep the Mom, or Dad, at home caring for their children?

 

Should parents give their children the key to the Internet forums and let their young experience life as some of us adults do here and there?

 

 

Should adults with children let this be a proving ground for future caregiver's built with modern days, and tomorrow's, technology?

 

Since I don't qualify as a parent I will leave the discussion up to the parents who are online and bid you all adieu.

[DeadMansFist849]

No kids, myself (and staying that way).

 

However, since under-13's can't register at most places, well, if they're under 13 then they should stick to the explicitly child-only sites. I think there should be more education for children (and parents) about net safety. I don't really think that it's good for anyone under 16 to be unsupervised online, since by the time you're 16 you should know not to meet up with random people from the internet, give your home address out, and so on. I don't think keyloggers, hacking your child's accounts and otherwise showing them that you think they're always up to something and that they're bad kids, are anything other than counterproductive to them continuining to speak to you when they're older. :P I know more than a few people who lived with insane restrictions and don't want to know their parents any more as a result.

[Deleted54170User]

There used to be a show on the Internet called, "TechTV". There was a guy who stated the fact that the age restriction software on these forums don't stop children under the age of 13 from signing up. It just deters any of them who are conscientious about lying about their age.

 

There is so much more interesting stuff on the Internet, not many people are going to take the time to look up, "Internet Safety" for their childrens sake. I grew up with some children whose folks who were so busy, with their own lives, that their own children came to my house to play. (If the children stayed for dinner they ended up having to have to work for it.)

 

You've made some good points, but the fact is; that most parent's of this day and age of technology are among the minority who use such devices. Basically they wont because their own sanity is tested when they have the safety tools, the spy tools, and lock out stuff installed.

 

Where do you draw the lines between sanity and insanity? The low and high range of intellect amongst the entire Earth's population is full of a variety of mindsets that appear insane until we become as intellectually aware of their heightened sense of literacy. To consider a person insane can lead to a form of mental indifference to our own state of mental balance too.

 

We then either become part of the literacy group we learned was not insane, or, we shun them. Consequently we are shunned by the group while we studied that group as we become like them, and are shunned by the group we were amongst, because they see us as different. In effect then: I am alone because I became different from both groups.