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@helpme15 Can we stop this idiotic strawman argument? It's a fact that you can't control what your kids are exposed to. I'm not planning to showing anything inappropriate to my kid but I'm also not going to bury my head in the sand and pretend things don't exist. There's a huge difference...

@helpme15 That's exactly my point. This attitude will not encourage a kid to talk to you about whatever is on their mind. If my kid has questions about drugs I want them to ask me, not their moronic stoner classmate.

@helpme15 We all want to protect kids, our own and others but trying to do it by keeping kids uninformed is doomed to failure. Because even if worked there's going to be access to the same thing through peers anyway. I'm not saying we shouldn't monitor what kids are accessing but relying on...

@helpme15 Ok so to address your arguments here. 1 I've worked with teenagers in education they all understand how search filtering works and how to circumvent it. Hell I did it myself in school 2 The router doesn't filter anything if you use mobile data 3 yes they will find more than they...

@helpme15 Pointless, every modern teenager knows how a vpn works anyway. Building good communication with the kid will at least mean that they'll talk to you about the weird shit they inevitably find.

@olly91 Know the type, kids are perceptive and this one has probably copied this behaviour from the parents (i bet they're assholes to waiters too), not much you can do except insist on politeness around your family or cut all ties.

@jonny01 I don't think op was using any actual parental controls in this story. If you sync your browsers it should be fairly easy to see this. I have chrome on my laptop and phone and as long as I'm logged into Gmail on both it will sync my search history and it gives me an option to open all...