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My kids are under 10. 1. No internet access 2. A tablet with a few select apps and no games. 3. A tv with a Raspberry Pi running xbmc with a few videos I've cu
by bitlax 4y ago
My kids are under 10.
1. No internet access
2. A tablet with a few select apps and no games.
3. A tv with a Raspberry Pi running xbmc with a few videos I've curated.
Access to the tablet and tv are limited to certain times, say when we're driving or when my wife's cooking. At some point I'll probably use a PiHole or something like that to give them whitelisted access to a few sites. Not sure where I'll go after that. I don't plan to secretly monitor any conversations but I think I'll stress that I don't consider online and messaging communications to be private and they will be monitored.
As for the money, I'd address the goals separately. Have investment accounts which aren't touched and a performance-based allowance which they can spend completely. I think the Dave Ramsey "when the money's gone it's gone" lesson is something that's supremely important to learn early. And if they need some more money they can always make an appeal to the local VC (you).
- krisoft 4y ago> I think I'll stress that I don't consider online and messaging communications to be private and they will be monitored. What a wonderfull dystopia we are building here together. And then we wonder why the average people don’t care about privacy. Perhaps because they were conditioned from a young age to expect none?
- bitlax 4y agoMaybe my wording wasn't precise enough. My kids have a reasonable amount of privacy which is less than the amount of privacy I expect them to be granted by other people. The internet grants access to literally every type of content and image if you try hard enough and there are obvious things I don't want my children exposed to. My idea of a dystopia involves children being exposed to rotten.com, porn, and communicating with pederasts in any way. And honestly it doesn't seem like people are building much of anything, just abdicating responsibility for the most part.
- alar44 4y agoAnd then when they finally have access they are going to binge like crazy because they haven't learned how to manage that access. It's like the sheltered kids that go off the deep end when they hit college because they have no experience with anything.
- stackbutterflow 4y agoOr, it's like the college students who drink water, eat vegetables, and exercise and continue to do so throughout their life because they haven't been exposed to junk food, soda, and flavored sugar disguised as food during their childhood.
- kleene_op 4y ago> I don't plan to secretly monitor any conversations but I think I'll stress that I don't consider online and messaging communications to be private and they will be monitored. So you'll be lying to your kids?
- bitlax 4y agoNo I'll tell them up front I'll be monitoring their usage.