my kids are still small 8 and 7 i have kept them away from pcs at home. at school they have a pretty closed system so i let them do their stuff there.
reasons why?
1. so they get to have some kind of non dork nerd life. Trust me i may be a pc geek but i had a life before computers so i think they should too.
2. once they have a pc at home that they can use (next year cause they are asking and deserving it with good grades and conduct) i will give them the pc and not give them email addresses. no hotmail for them yet no messenger at least untill they spend a couple of months with me showing them the geek stuff.
not to say you guys should do it this way but i am going to do it this way it is the only way. the other thing i will do is show them the stuff little by little so they know its out there but they don't feel the need
is like my dad and guns and drinks
he let me touch the gun the first time he brought it home. never felt the need to touch it again
he told me that if i wanted to do drugs he would take me to get them and test them so i never felt the need to hide and use them cause i could ask him
alchohol same deal when i became an adult (yeah right i am still a kid) i went out and hung out with him and drank with him so i did not have to hide (my first FUBAR was with him)
anyways my 2 cents
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