I still don’t understand why a child needs an iphone.
“why are farts so awesome,” LOL!!!
Why does a child need an IPhone??
There's your problem.
Why does any kid need an iphone, or any other cell phone until they are of an age to work and pay for their own? It is just an invitation to mischief or worse, never mind a distraction at school...
Sounds like a 10-year-old boy who may be gay and may have covered it up by sharing supposed female “crushes” with his family. Not a family that’s going to be well prepared for it if that is the case.
Two words...
Parental Controls.
Built right into every iOS device. Work pretty good too...
It can be mitigated by setting up protections on your home network but phones come with Internet access through the telephone network which is outside of your home network. There is probably a way to control it though.
I image the simplest way to control it is to force all access through your home wifi network and not include your son or daughter on your dataplan. They really don't need Internet access on their phone anyway.
Yea right mom, keep believing that.
First World Problems.
The kids don't need a phone anyway-
My kids know that every electronic device in the house — except mine — will be smashed instantly upon discovering any untoward search (and not replaced for years). Done it before, for other reasons. Do have all the parental controls available.
providence/natuer gave us all those body parts and the functionality that goes with them. it is the woman who has issues with pictures of the body parts and by transitivity with providence/nature. the attitude of the woman that sex is shameful is just passing on her psychological trauma to her son, who is the victim. i wonder what she does to him when they visit a zoo. what kind of commotion does she throw up then? “don’t look, those bad zebras are doing IT! don’t watch!! bible this!! bible that!! blablabla!!” sheesh.
“I pointed out that all his crushes have been on girls....”
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That’s some dangerous talk. The school’s staff may not approve, think it is wrongfully sexist and may want to have a few words with you.
I think I first heard, “I’m a young stenographer. My name is Sally Brown”, when I was about 10. It seemed to check out with most of what I’d gathered from about age 7.
“[H]is search terms quickly shifted in a more disturbing direction. “Naked people.” “Naked boys.” “Naked men.” “What is gay?”
The kid is 9 or 10. He likely was laughing his butt off at every stage of his investigation, and following it with, "What ELSE they got on here?!?"
Real Bright - give a TEN YEAR OLD open access to the Internet.
Hate to break the news to her now, but there are phones that DO NOT play pornographic movies, or any movies, for that matter.
His mother was understandably upset and then irate. When her husband came home from work, she showed him what their son had been “searching” for and told him that they both needed to 1) have a long talk with their son, 2) punish him if he tried lying about it and 3) take away all computer (unless closely supervised and for homework only) and all video game privileges. Her husband agreed but did tell his wife that he was at least somewhat relieved his son was searching for naked women and not something worse.
The both confronted my nephew and at first he tried to deny it; “I don’t know what you are talking about”, “It wasn’t me”, “I didn’t do it”. But then he finally broke down and admitted that he had searched for those sites. However, in his defense, he told them; “I didn’t really see much. All those sites wanted a credit card to really see the nasty stuff. It’s really kinda like false advertising”.
And later that night she and her husband followed the cached web browser links prior to deleting them and sure enough, while there were racy, semi-naked, very suggestive pictures on the sites’ home pages, they couldn’t get past at least the home pages on the sites he had searched and clicked on without entering a credit card number.
FWIW, I’ve been using the internet since the early 90’s; regularly, for work, for research on all sorts of topics that interest me or for further research sometimes on FR articles and sometimes just for my random entertainment and being a woman in her 50’s, living alone with no children, I don’t have parental controls or filters on my internet browsers or on my ISP and while I have certainly never purposefully searched for porn and I’m not about to anytime soon, but perhaps more importantly, I’ve never accidently come across any hard core porn sites while doing an internet search and believe me, I’ve probably searched up some rather weird, albeit not specifically pornographic terms, that I would have thought after the fact, might have. I really don't get the "One day I innocently searched for zucchini recipes and suddenly found myself on a hard core porn site.”