Parents, how do you monitor your child's internet activity?

[Shr3dd3r]

How do you monitor your child's internet activity? At what age did you allow a mobile phone? I know some parents buy the phones where it can only contact certain numbers that the parents set.

UPDATE: A lot of posters are really focusing on porn. I'm really more thinking about social networking apps and all the random sickos and perverts that are on those apps, that can interact with your kids.

 

[chardog]

You can set your router on a dns if you want a lot of control. Did that for a while. I simply shut them down if they don’t do their chores, simple approach

 

[Pliny Pete]

 

[NoSmilez]

How old are your kids? Honestly do you really want to monitor your kid's internet? Internet is a wild place.

 

[Fedorgasm]

Google has a good app called family link.

Works very well.

I was able to set all kinds of limitations on screen time, bed time, apps, as well as knowing where my kids were at. It's great until they're 13.

There was no certain age where I decided they could have a phone, it was more at the point where I felt like it would be beneficial for me to be able to reach them.

For both kids that happened around the age of 10/11.

If your kid is a homebody then maybe you can wait longer.

 

[chardog]

How old are your kids? Honestly do you really want to monitor your kid's internet? Internet is a wild place.

my son accidentally messaged me porn when he was 13

my kids are busy bodies, so I feel I dont have to monitor them, although I'm sure I could if I wanted. I use to put screen time on all of them until one of them found out how to evade apple's screen time

 

[NoSmilez]

my son accidentally messaged me porn when he was 13

my kids are busy bodies, so I feel I dont have to monitor them, although I'm sure I could if I wanted. I use to put screen time on all of them until one of them found out how to evade apple's screen time

Yea there is certain shit you aren't going to understand as a parent. If my parents saw me looking at tub girl, meatspin or lemon party. They will probably send me to a therapist. They aren't going to understand it's just normal internet shit posting.

 

[Fedorgasm]

I use to put screen time on all of them until one of them found out how to evade apple's screen time

I figure if either of my kids are smart enough to get past Google's family link app then they've earned whatever bad stuff they were looking for.

 

[Via Heeto]

i don't have kids, but it is sad that kids these days don't have to access porn the old fashioned way by looking in their dads closet, or from a friend's older brother or something.

I remember we found a massive stack of porn magazines out in a field one time. there were like 500 magazines and even nude decks of cards. we went to that place for months before they disappeared.

my step dad kept some vcr tapes hidden in his closet that i would check out when nobody was home. Christy Canyon, Tonisha Mills, etc.

And then of course there was the scrabbled cable pornos

Nowadays just googling it seems wrong for kids

 

[Fedorgasm]

Nowadays just googling it seems wrong for kids

Yeah I found a porn magazine in the woods and it was very educational for a boy going through puberty. I honestly believe that it was healthy for me and didn't warp my development.

I suspect many dads back then purposely didn't hide their magazines all that well because they thought it's healthy for a boy to see that once he's old enough to want it bad enough that he's willing to risk getting caught. In a way it was the perfect system. Dads could kinda control it by only buying the tame stuff like playboy.

But the problem now is that dad can't control it at all anymore. Now your kids can look up videos of scat play and animal fucking and all kinds of sick shit.

Hell, even on the mainstream sites like pornhub they're going to come away with the impression that it's normal to fuck your step mom.

 

[GSP_37]

Pose as a 3rd party and send the dick pics and see if they take the bait?

 

[Brom Bones]

I make sure I'm right there with them while we jerk off together.

The family that plays together stays together.

Spoiler

LOL. JK. I'm too smart to start a family.

 

[Alonzo Black]

I don't.

 

[Misanthropist]

There is really nothing you can do if you’re concerned about porn. If you do something, they’ll learn from their friends how to bypass this and become more tech savvy. Think of how we got smarter and adapt in our childhood in the 90s. They have it much easier now with all that freely accessible stuff.

 

[Milgrim]

I trust my boy @Clippy. I don't think he'd be doing anything out there that would shame the family.

 

[Roman Reigns GF]

I make sure I'm right there with them while we jerk off together.

The family that plays together stays together.

Spoiler

LOL. JK. I'm too smart to start a family.

You're a scumbag

 

[TheTickG]

Google has a good app called family link.

Works very well.

I was able to set all kinds of limitations on screen time, bed time, apps, as well as knowing where my kids were at. It's great until they're 13.

There was no certain age where I decided they could have a phone, it was more at the point where I felt like it would be beneficial for me to be able to reach them.

For both kids that happened around the age of 10/11.

If your kid is a homebody then maybe you can wait longer.

What happens at 13?

 

[Brom Bones]

You're a scumbag

Thanks you. Thanks you very much.

Your kind words really make a difference!

 

[Roman Reigns GF]

Thanks you. Thanks you very much.

Your kind words really make a difference!

I'm also a scumbag with no kids, so I did laugh at the initial post.

I left that part out of my post to try and feel as if I'm better than you.

I'm sorry

 

[Brom Bones]

I'm also a scumbag with no kids, so I did laugh at the initial post.

I left that part out of my post to try and feel as if I'm better than you.

I'm sorry

It's alright, bro. It happens to the best of us.