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The parent comment I replied to was about blocking, not monitoring. Monitoring is a whole other matter.

• jolmg 7y ago
  The parent comment I replied to was about avoiding monitoring in favor of education. I replied asking if education was considered sufficient on its own or if blocking was also desirable in addition to educating. You replied that instead of blocking one should just talk to them if they're seeing stuff they're not supposed to. Unless you rely on catching them by accident, that seems to reintroduce the need for monitoring that we were avoiding, so I replied asking how we're supposed to know such things without it. Monitoring is related. The whole subthread is about avoiding it.
  • ahje 7y ago
    Sorry, I misunderstood you then. For what it's worth, I couldn't even monitor all my teenager's Internet traffic even if I wanted to. We have had the "there's a lot of wierd stuff on the Net" talk, and there has been other kids at school who apparently MMS'ed some pretty bad stuff to the other kids, which resulted in a very productive discussion about peer pressure and the importance of being responsible. I believe that approach is better than trying to control everything. Otherwise you'll simply end up with a bunch of kids in a small bubble that bursts when they move out, and then the World will simply come crashing down on them no matter what. It's better to prepare them for what's to come.