Say you were a guardian or parent and get to decide when a child can get a phone or use a computer and get internet with it. If you wish you can also install software and change router settings to what you see fit.
Some parents decide to forbid the internet completely, others are more relaxed. Some go the helicopter route, and some do not care whatsoever what their kid does online.
What is your policy on letting a child use the internet?
You sit at a desktop in the kitchen to use the computer. If you have shown yourself to be responsible you know your password.
The wifi shuts off at bedtime.
My 11-12-13 year old kids have Apple Watches for communication purposes but no smartphones. These are charged all together in a locked pantry at night.
if you are a h4x0r you also know your password
This is where we keep it more or less. Everything done where I can hear and see it if I want. Network settings adjusted so that it’s not pure unadulterated internet that he can stumble onto.
I do allow an iPad, but same rules. Used in common areas and no screens at night. Being able to FaceTime his friends has been awesome for all of them lately with summer coming up.
That sounds pretty draconian.
A shared computer and no Internet when they are supposed to be sleeping is draconian?
Isn’t this how us kids in the 1990’s and 2000s grew up? (Minus the phone because we didn’t have them, or just a flip phone)
Calling it draconian to not be able to stay up all night on the internet sounds kind of like an iPad kid as a teenager lol
Yep. And even then, our desktop computer was upstairs - which was out of the way, nothing up there except my sister’s bedroom and a living room that wasn’t really used - so arguably that was too isolated lol. We weren’t allowed laptops until we finished high school! Even my friend who did have a laptop wasn’t allowed it in her bedroom.
The internet was also restricted to go off at 9pm because I was staying up on msn and Myspace all night otherwise 😅
Yeah, I don’t want to be like “kids these days” but lol
It’s not. No devices at night is super normal for kids who haven’t learned to regulate yet. It’s maybe a bit tighter than I would choose, but I still think it’s a fair balance at that age.
Have you been on the internet lately?
You sound very twelve.