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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is 8 and I just ordered the book Good Pictures Bad Pictures to read and discuss with him. The original version is for ages 7-11 but there is also a Jr version for younger kids. Average age of first porn exposure for boys is 10, so I want to be sure to get out ahead of it.

Porn can mess up a kid’s brain wiring with regard to sex. They get all kinds of unhealthy messages about women, men, relationships. If they accidentally or otherwise access pictures of underage people, you’ve got a child pornography situation on your hands. I’m a teacher and see the messes that kids can get into. So no, I would not let it go or accept it as okay even if it’s common.

The following was posted here several years ago and I actually saved it in my iPhone notes for down the road with my kids because I thought it was a sensible way to address it with a young teen:

“Basically, if you are using our device and are a minor, you cannot use it to download, read or view inappropriate content. Which Is defined in our house as anything that will get you in trouble with parents, the principal or the police.

Curiously about porn is normal. But we have concerns about you viewing porn before you are in a mature adult relationship, because healthy relationships are nothing like porn, and we don’t want you to think they are. You are hooking your device up to the school network, and we don’t want you to accidentally upload an pornographic image. Of course, naked pictures of teens— that you know IRL or that you download are kiddie porn, and you could end up in jail and on the sex offender registry.

Kid got a warning and it happened again, so he lost his phone for a period of time.

Honestly, I am only going to check behind my kid so much. If they delete their browsing history, don’t download, etc, and I see not eveidemce of porn on a causal review, then I am not going digging for it. But if I see it, I am not going to pretend I didn’t. It was a couple of unfun conversations. But I can’t condone viewing or downloading porn onto a device I pay for. It’s sketchy for adult men. It’s not okay for 14 year olds”[/quote]

I looked into his phone he is 14.5. He had some site on that I saw in his browsing history that shows porn. 
I am quite upset about it. He got a phone late but had ipad earlier of course.[/quote]

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