Hi Catalin,

Your comments don’t only apply to technology, from my discussions with schools 
the issue you raise is across the board.

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> On 23/04/2019, at 19:42, Catalin Dominte <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> If  I may interject here slightly. As a father myself, what I noticed is that 
> quite a lot of parents are under the impression that education happens only 
> in school and after school clubs. Very few parents spend the required TIME to 
> educate their children and explain to them the responsibility and dangers of 
> the internet. 
> 
> This takes us back to a bit of a catch 22. If the parents are not doing much, 
> then the govt may feel like it's time to bring in some regulation to direct 
> things a bit. 
> 
> Again, as a parent I prefer to educate my own kids, and to make TIME for 
> this, rather than let the government and any other vendors out there have a 
> go at it. As a techie, I do enforce all sorts of filters and limits (and I 
> agree that it can be a challenge to get it right) but I also prefer to give 
> the kids a bit of a choice to  they can understand what not to do as an 
> exercise for later on when I will not be able to enforce those limits. 
> 
> Also, seeing as the title is Parental Controls, I take it as my 
> responsibility as a parent first and foremost to make sure that what the 
> child does and sees on the internet is appropriate.
> 
> 
> Catalin
> 
> On 22/04/2019, 23:33, "uknof on behalf of Scott Weeks" 
> <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>    --- [email protected] wrote:
>    From: Bill <[email protected]>
> 
>    We don’t need more rules and regulation we need more education.
>    ------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
>    Yes!  And this is where the gov't can help.  They could create 
>    public service announcements, work groups, etc to reach out to 
>    the communities and help them to help their kids.
> 
>    scott


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