[pollyannaish]

I agree. I really want to know what started this girl down the wrong path.

I spent time the other day perusing the websites the two of them were part of. Chilling to say the least. I will not let my children hang out in those places. No different then letting them wander downtown in the middle of the night imo. Ugly, rough and at times, very evil.

[laney]

Good Post. Kids should not have a free for all to use the Internet, people speaking of a 14 year old like they have the maturity to understand LUST< DEATH<PAIN...

[cookiedough]

I'm sitting here trying to decide between Net Nanny and Cybersitter. No way my kids are going to be fooling around chatting with anyone on websites. We have a phone here in the kitchen that they can continue to use, and a computer in the den that they can use. No private computers, t.v.s or phones in their rooms. They want that, they'll have to wait until they move out of our house.

I don't believe in giving them absolutely no privacy. But they can communicate with others in semi-privacy, knowing one of our family members could walk into the room at any time. It certainly won't hurt 'em -- I grew up in a household like that (the norm for the time).