On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Andrew McNabb <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you read your children's > emails, diaries, etc. without their consent, they will rightfully hate > you. Because they know it's wrong. > If you tell your children that their use of the computer is a privilege, and that it comes with no expectation of privacy (i.e. they are only allowed to use the computer either with us literally there looking over their shoulder, or virtually there looking over their shoulder) that isn't the same thing as sneaking into their room and reading their diaries without telling them that this is what they are doing. The idea is to say that the computer isn't the place for anything private. Do that somewhere else.And it's not because I don't trust you, it is because the monitoring is a mechanism of deterrent that insures that they aren't even tempted. Nor do I trust myself, my own use is monitored for my own protection, just as their use is monitored for theirs, because this "watching each other" is one of the most powerful protections we have. By removing all privacy, we remove all temptation. James -- "And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun..." (Mark 16:2) Web: http://james.jlcarroll.net
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