EPTHow would you describe the Internet to your child? - Page 4
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1Eris1
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bonifaceviii
Canada2890 Posts
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Mr Showtime
United States1353 Posts
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Firebolt145
Lalalaland34498 Posts
How are current parents of growing children dealing with this? | ||
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Kickboxer
Slovenia1308 Posts
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matiK23
United States963 Posts
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Mortality
United States4790 Posts
Spam buster. POW bitch! | ||
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-_-Quails
Australia796 Posts
Firebolt415: I'll set up their first e-mail and social networking accounts to ensure adequate privacy, give them full control and withdraw from supervising them when they demonstrate that they are capable and willing to protect themselves (by not posting their phone number publicly, for example), and be open to talk to them about anything they encounter while exploring. I'll show them how to use the various online tools my parents showed me - how to search optimally, cloud storage, video chat - and newer tools that I've taught myself. My parents did this, and stopped supervising when I was 6 or 7. They also stuck a curfew on the router for a few years (11pm-5am). | ||
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Bub
United States3518 Posts
I think someone on Reddit said that and then a woman corrected that men are boys | ||
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dementrio
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mastergriggy
United States1312 Posts
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Poffel
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Yeah, if I had a child it would be pretty smart. So what? | ||
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QuanticHawk
United States32097 Posts
I remember once reading about some artist whose father let her drink some strong booze at a young age so she got sick enough to basically never want to do it again til she was older. When the time is right, I will allow my child to access the computer, and leave it set to 4chan, and never again will I have to worry about them mistakenly stumbling upon the darkest corners of the internet | ||
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Klipsys
United States1533 Posts
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Radioman
Canada904 Posts
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Firebolt145
Lalalaland34498 Posts
On February 10 2012 04:06 -_-Quails wrote: How I describe the internet to them would vary depending on why they asked, at what stage of education and development they are at, and how much time they want to spend on the question. I could go into as much technical detail as they wanted or talk about the societal role of the internet or just tell them it's made of tubes if they're being stupid. Firebolt415: I'll set up their first e-mail and social networking accounts to ensure adequate privacy, give them full control and withdraw from supervising them when they demonstrate that they are capable and willing to protect themselves (by not posting their phone number publicly, for example), and be open to talk to them about anything they encounter while exploring. I'll show them how to use the various online tools my parents showed me - how to search optimally, cloud storage, video chat - and newer tools that I've taught myself. My parents did this, and stopped supervising when I was 6 or 7. They also stuck a curfew on the router for a few years (11pm-5am). They stopped watching you at the age of 6? Really? :/ | ||
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HaruRH
Singapore2780 Posts
On February 10 2012 03:33 1Eris1 wrote: A little bit of heaven, hell, ignorance, love, and austerity all mixed together to form the most disgusting looking bowl of soup ever made. And yet it tastes so good Nice comparison! I would like to see more detailed posts so I could see more variety in the 'speeches' that you might one day make to your child. Letting him/her learn by themselves don't sound like a great idea, you do not want him running into some random pedophile who pretend to be a kid. | ||
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catid
United Kingdom47 Posts
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cmen15
United States1519 Posts
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Tanukki
Finland579 Posts
Obviously things like critical thinking and subjectivity are needed to fully understand all the crap in here, but you can't really forcefeed such concepts to a kid. | ||
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