On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Rainmaker wrote:
> >
> >Exactly. And as far as children are concerned, supervision is always a
> >possibility...
> >
>
> What a novel idea! You mean having parents know what their kids
> are doing? ;-}
My favorite bumpersticker in the parking lot at work:
"It's a shame my dog had to go to obedience school while my neighbor's
kids are running amok."
Don't want to feed this thread, but am a big fan of expecting parents to
supervise kids. Even on the net--I taught my technophobe parents a
handful of simple techniques (reading logs, viewing histories in
Netscape, etc.) that help them do that without having to be there every
minute or even understand all of the details. They also refused to let
them on the Net until they themsleves were comfortable with what they
were opening the kids up to. It *can* be done.
Guess we can argue endlessly about changing lifestyles and parental time
limits . . . but personally, I've put off kids and the lifetime
relationship because, largely, I simply don't have the time being a
professional to do things "right" in that area. That includes having the
time to spend on this type of thing. It is, after all, an option to have
kids, not a requirement.
In the end, I really oppose filtering and limits on access over parental
responsiblity as well. Giving parents one more reason to justify
disconnected lifestyles doesn't seem to be an answer,or even an
acceptable band-aid, to the larger social questions everyone
conventiently tries to ignore :p
B
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