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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really bad to let kids have phone or computer in their room alone.[/quote]

why? what is really bad about that?[/quote]

You really aren't aware that there's a ton of content on the internet that would be really inappropriate for a 10 year old to see and would be super easy for them to stumble on to?[/quote]

Also, victims and perpetrators of cyber bullying usually have comps in their rooms. Lots of unsupervised computer time.[/quote]

Good luck. We found out our DD was having group chat between friends by sharing a Google document on their school issued accounts.

If you watched her, it looked like she was just editing a word document. In reality it was a group chat! Kids will find a way...[/quote]

I think you're missing the point. You should make it as difficult as possible for your kids to find A way rather than help them along .[/quote]

Yep, as a mom to teens, I agree with this point generally. E.g., I might not be able to prevent my teen from drinking or having sex. That doesn't mean I allow my DSs to drink beer in their bedrooms are have their girlfriends sleep with them.[/quote]

Do you really not know how to control access or view activity at the mac address level? One does not need to physically look over a kids shoulder to know what is going on or to prevent access. Plus do you hover over your kid in the family room 24x7? Are your teens not allowed on the computer when you are not home to viaually monitor their phones, tablets, and computer?

We have our kids MAC addresses on auto shut down to the wireless at 9pm and that's just a fraction of the controls.[/quote]

You must have a more sophisticated router all our does is time limit access control. How does MAC address filtering help with keeping them off harmful sites? Is the a white list service?[/quote]

First and easiest is I review the logs of incoming and outgoing traffic. I have a list of domain names they are allowed, so EVERYTHING is disallowed that I do not allow. If they want another allowed domain name, the ask me, I review and then allow or disallow said domain name. If my kids can get into my router (and figure that one out!) given the fact that I have a strong WPA2-PSK key, or if they have managed to download undetected some sort of P2P client such as Bittorrent, then quite frankly, I will be impressed and pretty damn proud.

in all honesty, now that I have a 15yr old, I now only disallow a few websites and allow everything else. It is my youngest (7yr old) that I have to have tight reigns on. I just check the logs of my 15yr old and as long as I do not find anything objectionable (which I have NOT) then I let him be.  We need to give our kids the autonomy to make good choices. Many of them will be reaching adulthood before we know it. My 15yr old has not let me down, so he gets more and more rope.

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