Originally Posted by jplinville

Mine... I'm trying my best to raise him to be a respectable young man. Apparently it seems to be working, because I recently got a call from the school's principal, letting me know that my son's actions stopped another kids from being bullied. He stood up against the offending kid, and after being hit, knocked him on his rump. Apparently after doing that, he told the kid to grow up and leave the other kids alone...then he reached down and helped the offending kid up to his feet and handed him his books.

He doesn't need to know that sending words isn't against the law...just the thought of it might keep him on the straight and narrow.

He's your normal, curious boy that is stepping into manhood, and doesn't know where to turn. His mother caught him in the bathroom one day 2 years ago, and told him that he was going to go to hell for doing that...then she shamed him in front of his sisters and grandparents. I finally got him to calm down and told him to keep the bathroom door locked when he's in there.

I keep the family computer on lock-down...to the point my daughter needed me to enter my password because she was doing a paper on marijuana, and Kaspersky was doing its job. Our laptops and phones have the same protection.

Kids will be kids...I know this. If this technology was present when I was a budding young man, I never would have left my room. However...since I am raising kids and have the ability to control how much smut and crap the kids see, I'm going to use every bit of it that I can.

I equate parents that don't do what is needed to protect their child's online and phone use to parents that allow a collection of porn mags to sit out on the coffee table for all to see.