Yes, rocket building and explosive testing should wait until a child is into teens. I had my first rocket to blow up on me at about 13. Made my first batch of mercury fulminate at 14. Also blew out a bedroom window in another accident, but fortunately was working behind a screen and only got a few bruises on my arms from flying pieces of apparatus. That taught me to work with windows open if indoors, preferably outdoors so the toxic fumes would not be with me indefinitely. Never had any political, social, or economic motive -- just plain fun. Retired, almost, when I entered Navy.
Suspect you have a year or two before she learns how to bypass any child restrictions you impose anyway. I'm not sure I would trust PBS.ORG if it has the full range of programming the public TV and radio stations transmit locally. Do you let her watch TechTV? I didn't have even dialup internet when my kids were in their formative years, so they had to make do with stand-alone PC adventures. I had hopes for the youngest as a mad scientist, but she chose becoming a CPA. However I now have two grandchildren to begin teaching in a few years. Don't want to limit her computer adventures so much she ends up an IRS agent....... My lab skills weren't anything to brag about, but I have two eyes, ten fingers, etc. which qualified me as an expert witness in a court case involving accidental production and detonation of mercury fulminate in a biomedical lab. So the moral is that if you let your kid experiment with explosives, a marketable skill may be acquired. Not all are successful. Choppy At 05:49 PM 1/21/03 -0800, Doug Riddle wrote: >OK, new year, new project. > >I have a 10 year old evil genius (OK, she is cute, sweet, bright, and >loves Linux) that wants always on internet access. We have a LAN >with broadband access. Once upon a time I had very limited access >setup for her via a gateway. I was never very happy with it. > >I now have the additional PC needed to provide a gateway/router to >partition her off of the network. > >I have a new PC for her actually. She has been driving a P120-128MB >of RAM. I have a P2-400-128MB RAM machine for her. I want to take >her old PC and make it a file/print/gateway server. > >I only want her to be able to access a few URLs, such as PBS.org, >etc. > >My questions are: > >What approach should I take to restrict her access? >What should I log to be sure it is working? >What sites should I grant access to? >What apps should I not load? > >Notes: I do supervise her activity. I also trust her judgement. >However, she should not be allowed to play with rockets, explosives, >or fissionable material, even with adult supervision. (Trust me on >this one.) > >I am sending this to the local LUG, as well as my favorite Libranet >User group. The members of the LUG may know my little angel. They >may not trust her as far as I do. > >I have some ideas on this, but I know I am not an expert, so I wanted >to ask the community before I tried re-inventing the wheel. > > > > >===== >Warmest Regards, > > >http://www.dougriddle.com >http://fossile-project.sourceforge.net/ >http://www.libranet.com >-- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are >the Peoples' Liberty Teeth." - George Washington -- > > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. >http://mailplus.yahoo.com > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
