> In the short term, very. Based on my own experience, not so much. I managed to sign up for & use facebook on a dumb phone against my parents wishes, and I wa

> In the short term, very. Based on my own experience, not so much. I managed to sign up for & use facebook on a dumb phone against my parents wishes, and I wasn't particularly technically proficient at the time. I only got caught when I logged into the account on the family computer, and angling the screen away from my parents made them suspicious. They also implemented various blocks, both on the router and with software on the PC. This taught me about DNS, proxies, VPNs and Tor, and led to me seeing a lot of messed up things, since I was so curious to see what they didn't want me to see. Simply preventing your kid from doing something leads to them learning how to sneak past you. As you said, > If the kids are educated as to why a certain action is being taken, as opposed to just No then kids can accept the policy and be fine with it