This story is slightly off topic, but I think fits enough. My parents decided to try to lock down my computer usage around 11yo, not so young as OP's kids. My

This story is slightly off topic, but I think fits enough. My parents decided to try to lock down my computer usage around 11yo, not so young as OP's kids. My mother was very religious, my step father kind of passive and quiet but a bit radical leaning. I think our eight year cold war over what they thought was pornography was actually something that helped me get more interested in computers. I mean, not that I didn't have an interest in pornography but no more than any other preteen boy. In fact probably a lot less. However, their entire evidence was banners from crack sites left in the cache and an MP3 on a zip disk of 'Fatboy Slim is Fucking in Heaven', but when they ran it it was a video that didn't play because they didn't really know what an MP3 was. Anyway, he had site black lists on the system and later the router, a special censoring ISP, and definitely monitored me like crazy. But I deployed key loggers, booted linux (from any weird media I could figure out), set up ssh tunnels and vpns to scavenged boxes my friends would let me put at their houses, I learned tricks of the windows file system to hide entire sections of the drive. He would nuke my keyloggers and not tell me and rotate his admin passwords. I even monitored him remotely via CDC BackOriface. I learned how to use a hex editor to mask it from virus scan. We have still to this day, never talked about it. I think he was/is proud. I think it's really good to keep the very young ones from wandering into places that will hurt them, but a kid with a curious mind probably isn't going to be stopped with countermeasures. I think communication is key over all. When I look back at it, the thing that upset me the most is the never talking to me about their fears but snooping then gathering whatever confirmation of their fears that they could find and attempting to penalize me. This closed off a lot of communication opportunities we could have had to grow as I was learning about the world, but in the end it helped me learn something that's a big part of my life in a way I wouldn't have learned quite the same way otherwise. Hack the Planet.