You need to be very careful with this age of technology. Children are
on the internet at all times of the day and are finding their ways to
places they should not be allowed. With online pornography simply a
click away, you need to ensure that the security settings are right on
your computer. In fact you may want to ensure that you don't even go to
these websites, because it seems like once you do all sorts of adware
will pop up for other sites.
Who's to say that when this happens your child won't be the one sitting
in front of the computer screen, and click yes? It's not hard for a
child to lie about their age, kids today are not stupid and they can
figure out easily what year they need to be born in to allow them
access to this once forbidden landscape of debauchery. All it takes is
a simple date; these sites don't go and check what else is up with the
person who is coming to their site. Hell they don't even care; they
just want those people on their website hopefully purchasing a video or
something else.
Ok just because you might have to purchase a video doesn't mean that
once your child has lied about his age that he's not seeing things that
are only intended to be viewed by adult eyes. No in fact as soon as he
has hit enter with his or her fake birth date the gates are wide open
they will be seeing people unclothed and in acts of well things they
just shouldn't be seeing. That is why in my opinion
parental controls is one of the more vital products every made.
Society today seems to have such a lax viewpoint on different things,
that when I was little were a big deal. Sex was discussed on TV let
alone for a kid to even know what the heck it was. We didn't have
computers until around age 12. But even so,
the internet was not even
something that we went on, heck I can't even tell you the first time I
went online, it had to be when I was in my 20's. But nowadays there are
kids on the computer from who knows what age. With all these different
social sites out there they sign up on, and chat to people who may be
older then they even admit.
We've all seen those 48 hour episodes where these older men sit there
and hit on a girl who they think is a teen. They even drive to the
girl's house to meet her, some bringing alcohol. What the hell is wrong
with our society when these men do this, and some don't even seem to be
upset about being caught? Are we so corrupt and unmoral?
No we just need to make sure as parents that we are watching what our
kids do on the computer and setting the security settings so they can't
get on someplace they shouldn't be. Be sure to have your anti-spyware, anti-virus and
registry cleaner in alert also. In fact just try and stay off those
sites yourself, it will be amazing how much of a difference it will
make in raising your child.