Comments on: Suggested Blog Reading – Thursday June 28th, 2007 http://www.andrewhay.ca/archives/157 the website of a devastatingly handsome author, sporadic blogger, bbq junkie, and security strong man Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:23:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: MikeP http://www.andrewhay.ca/archives/157/comment-page-1#comment-1546 MikeP Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:44:46 +0000 http://www.andrewhay.ca/archives/157#comment-1546 My stepdaughter is 12. I've long ago given up on worrying whether or not I'll look like a fogey trying to impart wisdom - to kids, old people (anybody over 20) doing anything even remotely resembling telling them what to do or how to do it is a fogey trying to impart wisdom. It doesn't matter the format it takes. So if we have an important message to get through her nigh-impenetrable pre-teen skull, we try several ways spread out over... well, ever. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. If you don't want kids going to certain websites, you have two choices: hang over their shoulders 100% of the time (if it's 95% they *will* sneak it in the other 5) or have some sort of blocking technology. I went so far as to suggest squid + a whitelist here, backed by pf, but that got shot down. So we compromised for watching her a reasonable amount - she needs some privacy, after all, or at least the illusion of such - and checking her browsing history. My stepdaughter is 12. I’ve long ago given up on worrying whether or not I’ll look like a fogey trying to impart wisdom – to kids, old people (anybody over 20) doing anything even remotely resembling telling them what to do or how to do it is a fogey trying to impart wisdom. It doesn’t matter the format it takes. So if we have an important message to get through her nigh-impenetrable pre-teen skull, we try several ways spread out over… well, ever. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

If you don’t want kids going to certain websites, you have two choices: hang over their shoulders 100% of the time (if it’s 95% they *will* sneak it in the other 5) or have some sort of blocking technology. I went so far as to suggest squid + a whitelist here, backed by pf, but that got shot down. So we compromised for watching her a reasonable amount – she needs some privacy, after all, or at least the illusion of such – and checking her browsing history.

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