We taken the other route. My son got his own domain, he got his own e-mail for his domain. Allowed him a Facebook account he have to have us as friends and we know the password. I get a copy (unknown by him) of any e-mails going to his e-mail account. We had the talk about proper online behavior such as never to share contact information such as address and phone number. He got his own netbook and itouch used to be limited what he could do by a software but it had so much flaws we disabled it (windows account is a limited account so can't install software). The router (mikrotik) logs the addresses he is visiting thanks to webproxy setup. On the itouch he do not have setup so he can install programs himself but he will ask and so far only been one app we wouldn't install (comic reader that could access as adult type comics and explained to him why wouldn't allow that one but found another software that would allow comic access but without adult content).
So far so good. Daughter also got her own netbook but still using the software on it and it works best for her for now because it "simplifies" things on it for her. We tried the other way around with the older kids and it didn't work to great to be honest and was why the webproxy got setup in the first place and wish that XP been the OS back then so we could have given them limited access to windows but that was back in the days of 98. / Eje -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 12:50 AM To: WISPA General List Cc: [email protected] Subject: [WISPA] how to protect your kids Hi All, Here's the scenario. My kids are expressly forbidden from having email addresses outside my domain. They are forbidden from having myspace, facebook etc. sites. If they want an email, fine by me, but it's one that *I* can check on. If they want a web site, fine by me, but make it a real one that *I* can delete things from. I'm trying to teach them to NOT do or say things on the internet that might bite them in the butt later. The days of people eventually forgetting the stupidity of youth or passion are long gone. Anyway, my 13 year old has a myspace account. He used a hotmail email address to get it. He had permission to use neither of them. I finally found out about the myspace account and went in to check out what he'd been saying. His trash and sent messages had both been erased between when I got the password out of him and when I had time to check on it. (I didn't know that his zune, a video player!!!! would ALSO allow him to get on the net and work on his page, talk to his friends etc. deep sigh) So, I contacted myspace, using his account, and asked for all of the deleted information. I explained that I was the father of a minor and that he had no permission to use their site and I wanted to know what was being hidden from me. I gave my full name AND phone number as well as my email address. They were very good about contacting me quickly about this issue. However they flatly refused to provide me with any information!!!!! They had NO proof of age etc. on the account. Nothing to verify that the child was over 18 etc. And *I* as the PARENT am prevented from accessing the account information! "go get it from your teen" is basically what I was told. WTF is this??????? Absolutly amazing. So, what do the rest of you do to try to protect or control your kids these days? thanks marlon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
