Anonymous wrote:At 9 you should eliminate access to any website url that you haven’t manually entered.

that is developmentally innapropriate. filters are fine but whitelisting (unless through subdomains) seems really excessive for a kid that age.

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Anonymous wrote:You can remove/restrict Safari and only allow them to use apps that you have to approve

How to restrict safari?

Under Screen Time in settings

Couldn't the kid just reverse any changes? Kids often know more than the parents, and if they get online they get swamped with people trying to help them do whatever.

no, so long as parent sets a password.

At 9 you should eliminate access to any website url that you haven’t manually entered.

When my kids father was in 3rd grade, so about 8/9, his friend told him about porn. He ended up looking up EVERYTHING. Gay, bdsm, even stumbled upon illegal stuff involving horses. I would say your son is just curious. If he were searching for legit porn like my ex did, it would be different.

He did it on the family computer in the early 2000s. Didn't know about search history. So his parents found it all and were very upset.

I actually think the searches are pretty age appropriate in phrasing and likely indicate he's just repeating things he heard at school. If you have parent controls on, nothing awful is going to come up. It's actually useful for you to know he's reached this point so you can talk to him about it. I don't really see why you'd get mad at him unless you had specifically forbidden him from doing this sort of thing.

Anonymous wrote:Gawd I am so glad my kids grew up before the internet.

Yeah, this is way easier than scrambled Cinemax, the Sears catalog lingerie section, and a naked woman in a medical book.

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Anonymous wrote:You can remove/restrict Safari and only allow them to use apps that you have to approve

How to restrict safari?

Under Screen Time in settings

Couldn't the kid just reverse any changes? Kids often know more than the parents, and if they get online they get swamped with people trying to help them do whatever.

No, there is a code for Screen Time that only I (her mom) know.

Gawd I am so glad my kids grew up before the internet.

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Anonymous wrote:You can remove/restrict Safari and only allow them to use apps that you have to approve

How to restrict safari?

Under Screen Time in settings

Couldn't the kid just reverse any changes? Kids often know more than the parents, and if they get online they get swamped with people trying to help them do whatever.

Anonymous wrote:I remember wondering what my 1st grade teachers boobs looked like.

Thankfully for my parents we didn’t have the internet in the 80s.

Wow you got curious early! I had such a crush on my 5th grade English teacher though! He was like John Stamos' even hotter brother!

Anonymous wrote:Definitely your pervert husband

Yep he has to come home to this cow you blame him

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Anonymous wrote:You can remove/restrict Safari and only allow them to use apps that you have to approve

How to restrict safari?

Under Screen Time in settings

Anonymous wrote:Definitely your pervert husband

😩

Pretend to be an anonymous stranger and blackmail him

I remember wondering what my 1st grade teachers boobs looked like.

Thankfully for my parents we didn’t have the internet in the 80s.