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Posted By: The Tim <tim@thetimtimes.com> In Response To: WARNING TO PARENTS.... very VERY upset MaaMaw :-( (MaaMaw)
Friday, 8 April 2005, at 1:49 p.m.
> I watch my kids like a hawk (I should say "our" kids, since one
> of them is my grandson). I homeschool both of them. I'm here all the time.
> I pay close attention even though I'm working. They're 9 and they have
> never been with a babysitter a day in their lives... you get my drift.
> All the computers are in plain sight, and I don't sit there beside them
> but I check frequently and listen constantly, and I do sit with them if
> they want to look up something that makes me think there's even the
> slightest possibility they'll end up on a skanky site.
> Katie loves animals, and she spends a lot of time in her animal books as
> well as looking up animal facts and pictures on the internet. Again -- I
> watch closely but not constantly, and I know exactly what she's looking
> for.
> Last night, she was asking strange questions and I knew something was up.
> I went as far as I could with it, figuring I would come back to it today.
> This morning I checked, and I am absolutely SICK sick sick
> *******SICK******* at what she saw yesterday.
> It is the ***MOST*** disgusting thing I have ever seen -- and believe me,
> I've seen some pretty disgusting things (I had a son-in-law for two months
> who lived in our house and turned out to be a major pervert, and I thought
> I saw it all in the month and a half I tracked his every move).
> I want to sit down and bawl for a month, but instead, I started hunting
> for some kind of "parental controls" this morning -- not to
> block what the kids do (at least not yet), but to block what PERVERTS
> insist on showing them despite the innocence of what they do. (Yes, I know
> Katie got there by accident because I typed in some innocent searches and
> got there myself.)
> Anyhoo --
> Once again I took the long way around, but for a purpose. I wanted to
> point out to anybody who hasn't figured it out yet -- IT DOESN'T MATTER
> HOW CLOSELY YOU WATCH!! UNLESS YOU'RE SITTING *AT* THE COMPUTER
> CONSTANTLY, IT CAN HAPPEN!!
> I've spent the entire morning trying things. Cox Cable has a big campaign
> going now for "TakeCharge," and all I can say is
> "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!" They offer "tips" (well that
> helps!).
> AOL was impossible. "Young Child" won't let them do anything --
> "Young Teen" won't let them do anything -- and "Mature
> Teen" will show them just about anything you can imagine. (Actually,
> when I went to a couple of sites there was a message in one window that
> said, "You are not allowed to access this site!" -- but right
> below was the window with the home page in all its glory! Maybe that's
> just a quirk on my computer -- I have an older version of AOL.)
> I tried two free programs, and they made me NUTS.
> Finally I settled on NetNanny --
> OUTSTANDING!!! WONDERFUL!!! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
> Now if I can just undo the damage...
> Don't be an idiot like I was. Install something NOW, if you haven't
> already.
> Luv,
> MaaMaw
Sensibility Without The Static
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