Posted on 07/21/2014 11:58:26 AM PDT by Morgana
You grossly over-estimate Laz.
The boy is obviously not old enough to have a smart phone. If he was he would have deleted his search history! I believe this story is one of those moral fables some writers like to print. Yes, it might have happened, but the way it is described it is overly dramatic and moralistic. I call BS on this story, but I do agree that porn is a terrible thing for children to get involved with.
If I were his mother, I’d be looking into his friendships and associations with adults to see if he’s being groomed by an older male.
An interest in farting is normal for young boys. Sexual prurience is not.
Once upon a time there was whitehouse.com, but, alas, it's no longer the useful joke that it would be these days. According to the Wikipedia, "Many schoolchildren in the late 1990s inadvertently saw adult content via the website."
:-) Learn from my mistake.
I’m not whining about anybody. I don’t see a problem with giving your kid a smartphone. If you can afford it, and you can lock it down to keep them from getting to stuff you’d rather not go for it. As Americans we aren’t limited to “need” we can also do “want”, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
This is even more insidious, imho--more insidious than the fact there is porn on the web.
Now some person at the school has a scalable map of your house, nitwit.
Is that really any of their business?
At least 'flip' the floor plan, if you don't just make one up.
People are mined for more information than they know, and it starts in the schools.
Well finally something we can agree on. Americans are not and no need to be limited to “wants” and there’s nothing wrong with that.
However....I’m not in favor of giving children too much “stuff” I think it’s good and healthy to want. I used to tell my kids when they got the “i wants” : It’s good to want. ha!
“If I were his mother, I’d be looking into his friendships and associations with adults to see if he’s being groomed by an older male.If I were his mother, I’d be looking into his friendships and associations with adults to see if he’s being groomed by an older male.
An interest in farting is normal for young boys. Sexual prurience is not.”
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Why is it that it seems you and I are the only two on this thread that seems to get that?
We had a seven year old searching for “naked girls” on one of our phones. I don’t know what inspired his searches, but I am guessing older siblings. I also think some of his classmates at the time may have played a part. :(
Years ago, our second oldest daughter was caught searching for things she shouldn’t. She didn’t know there were security settings tracking her. I don’t know what inspired her either. We have found that our children know many ways around parental controls. When our oldest sons were in high school, they learned lots of evasion techniques. :(
I think precocious sexual talk and presentation has become so common among children that not everyone realizes it isn’t natural.
There are many negative influences out there.
The American Library Ass. socialists will coach children in ways to circumvent web screening.
NASA 2076 flies an Apollo 13.2 mission. All onboard are forever drifting in space because their iphones are unable to connect to google.
When I was that age, we didn’t have iPhones to watch porn. Instead, we joined the Boy Scouts and volunteered for the paper recycling drive because we all knew that burried withn a few of those perfectly stacked and twined bundles of newspapers and magazines, we would find old issues of Playboy, Penthouse, and Huslter.
I agree that smart phones are probably what we want our kids to have, though maybe 12 or 13. My 11 year old doesn’t have one yet.
I was little a long time ago, before anything more electronic than really cool stereo systems. Phones had curly wire attached to them. But I also was exposed to really raunchy porn at about the age of 9 or 10. I was a shy little girl and not seeking anything. We were playing at my little friend’s house in her parents’ bedroom and she told me her dad had a stack of nasty magazines under the Good Housekeeping type ones in the large magazine basket. She went to the bottom and pulled out a stack and gave me one. The article - yes, an article - I turned to was about a film where people were naked and slicing each other with razor blades. There were a few photos. It was so awful it made me feel nauseous and I shoved it back into the pile. I never liked that dad ever again and wondered about the mom. I also wondered if stuff like that would one day not be scary. Ha ha ha, it’s still scary to me now as a middle aged adult!! I’ve never heard of that practice since that day!
But I lived a very normal life. Kids do get exposed to weird things. It’s not ok but you cannot prevent it.
they are not assumptions.
1. nature exists, can be discussed dispassionately, and is a baseline for our existence.
2. the woman has obvious emotional issues with sex online. and iphones. and internet. and religious beliefs. those are not assumptions— she documents them in her article. as such they are fair game for discussion.
3. I do not frequent DU. I am more of an alt.politics.clinton.whitewater reader. i have on fr since 1998 or so. DU was launched in 2001. i see you have been on fr since 2005. do you know what you are talking about??
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It’s just natural, isn’t that what you were saying? Shouldn’t parents “educate” these kids “properly”? instead of trying to protect them which you find so laughable and mockable?
perhaps this will be highly controversial to you, but sex is (gasp— the horror! the horror!) natural. being uptight about a penis or vagina or a picture of a penis or vagina makes as much sense as being uptight about a picture of a nose or a foot.
I think the woman’s concern when dissected rationally is at least part luddite.
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