Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 17:17     Subject: 13 year old talking to strangers online
Anonymous wrote:Such doomsayers. My son made a lot of friends playing games online from around the world. This was 5 years ago - he's 18 now - and nothing terrible happened. But he does have a lot of common sense.


Your son is a weirdo
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 17:14     Subject: 13 year old talking to strangers online
Anonymous wrote:Such doomsayers. My son made a lot of friends playing games online from around the world. This was 5 years ago - he's 18 now - and nothing terrible happened. But he does have a lot of common sense.

Your lack of parenting isn't OPs problem. Go away.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 17:10     Subject: 13 year old talking to strangers online
Anonymous wrote:I don't allow communicating with strangers online.


+100

Only online communicating allowed is Facetime with close relatives - and never alone.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 15:19     Subject: 13 year old talking to strangers online
No. This is really bad OP.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 15:16     Subject: 13 year old talking to strangers online
Such doomsayers. My son made a lot of friends playing games online from around the world. This was 5 years ago - he's 18 now - and nothing terrible happened. But he does have a lot of common sense.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 15:10     Subject: 13 year old talking to strangers online
Please, please please monitor your childs online activity. So many predators are using childrens sites like discord and even roblox to prey on kids. Sextortion and whatnot is big right now.

Do not let your child become another statistic.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 14:46     Subject: 13 year old talking to strangers online
Anonymous wrote:Do you like your DC to talk to kids online on Discord?

I saw the nothings its all normal so nothing inappropriate, but I find it odd that when they intro they have to say their pronouns... is this normal for kids now days??


Da fuoq
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 14:40     Subject: 13 year old talking to strangers online
Your 13 year old should not be on discord talking to strangers. Do you parent at all?
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 14:35     Subject: 13 year old talking to strangers online
No! Those are not all kids on the other side of the screen
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2026 14:33     Subject: 13 year old talking to strangers online
Any females on here message me
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 08:27     Subject: 13 year old talking to strangers online
Absolutely no communicating with strangers online. Start enforcing this now. The kid can talk with people he already knows in real life.
Anonymous
Post 01/04/2022 07:04     Subject: 13 year old talking to strangers online
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't allow communicating with strangers online.


And you’re sitting with them all the time when they are online. Lol, ok.


Lol OT but my mom actually did this with me at this age. She'd even tell me what to type a lot of the time. The computer was password protected and it was a condition of getting to use it. I just wanted to connect with my friends so I went along with it for a while until I told my friends at school what was going on and they would type hi Mrs Larla.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 22:04     Subject: 13 year old talking to strangers online
Anonymous wrote:At the beginning of the pandemic, I wasn't happy about my then 10 year old's use of Discord, as she went from chatting to her best friend, to her best friend's friends, and their friends, and got into cyber fights with people she didn't know at all. Once that got shut down, she was allowed to belong to a safer, highly regulated community online (Star Stable), but that got boring, so now she's on another creative animal one, also moderated, but not as much, so she sits right by me on the couch and tells me whatever goes on there. So far it's very innocuous.

I repeat at least once a week that she mustn't give out any personal identification, and she knows what the list is. She has to report anything that makes her feel weird, anything anyone says that's inappropriate (there were plenty of those on Discord!). And since I'm literally reading the stuff over her shoulder, I can see we're fine so far.

She has never provided pronouns, but apparently this is a thing in MoCo - even some of her teachers provide pronouns. It's silly IMO, but not something that raises a red flag for me. It's not as if they could identify your child with that.



I have similar rules for my 11 year old. We talk about internet safety in some form or fashion every day and I listen to the chats periodically. She is not permitted to share her real name, location, show her face, etc. She basically is just playing Adopt Me or Minecraft. The kids really get into building stuff. She loves it.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 21:48     Subject: 13 year old talking to strangers online
At the beginning of the pandemic, I wasn't happy about my then 10 year old's use of Discord, as she went from chatting to her best friend, to her best friend's friends, and their friends, and got into cyber fights with people she didn't know at all. Once that got shut down, she was allowed to belong to a safer, highly regulated community online (Star Stable), but that got boring, so now she's on another creative animal one, also moderated, but not as much, so she sits right by me on the couch and tells me whatever goes on there. So far it's very innocuous.

I repeat at least once a week that she mustn't give out any personal identification, and she knows what the list is. She has to report anything that makes her feel weird, anything anyone says that's inappropriate (there were plenty of those on Discord!). And since I'm literally reading the stuff over her shoulder, I can see we're fine so far.

She has never provided pronouns, but apparently this is a thing in MoCo - even some of her teachers provide pronouns. It's silly IMO, but not something that raises a red flag for me. It's not as if they could identify your child with that.

Anonymous
Post 01/03/2022 21:42     Subject: 13 year old talking to strangers online
No.