At 8 years old? To make sure they’re not doing something stupid, like joining lemmy
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Fleur_@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Why do parents go through their children’s search history
Kaboom@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Fleur_@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Signing up for wizard101 at 10 years old is where my life started going wrong. If only my parents were more vigilant and vetted every link in my search history for hidden satanism
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 day ago
People are downvoting you, but I remember going on porn websites at 9 years old and it was great. I turned out fine, and I’m glad my parents didn’t check my browser history.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Because these children are at an age where the parents are responsible for them and their education and sometimes you have to take control of what your children has access to until they’re old enough to understand what they’re looking at.
There’s a wave of homophobia with perks at highschool level right now because their parents didn’t bother preventing them from checking right wing propaganda.
moseschrute@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
PSA to make sure your kids have not been lured in by Andrew Tates cult
Fleur_@aussie.zone 3 days ago
You don’t need to strip them of privacy to do that. If they’re too young to understand what they’re looking at just slap on some parental controls to whatever device they’re using. It’s not hard to explain to your children why being alt right is bad. It is hard to convince them you value their privacy after you’ve been spying on them.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
You first need to know that it’s a problem before applying disciplinary measures
Fleur_@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Giving kids the illusion of privacy so you can monitor them and punish them for doing things you disagree with is way worse than just not letting them do that thing. Or better yet, why not step the fuck up, do some parenting and explain to your kids why some things are bad.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
they’re 8. I used to teach 9-10 year olds and it’s not their fault, they aren’t stupid but they are kids and sometimes the things they do aren’t fully thought through or appropriate and they don’t know better.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Can parental controls block alt right type stuff nowadays?
Fleur_@aussie.zone 3 days ago
You can restrict access to whatever you want to. If you really wanted to you could curate a whitelist of places they could go to but honestly I’m not sure how I feel about that either