Internet Access, Serious Business

[blackdogdeek]

As adults, people face "arbitrary" rules all the time. They need to learn they don't get to break them just because they feel they have a good reason without consequence. These idiots could have killed the parents.

Also, we don't know what happened BEFORE this event. It's quite possible that the 10:00pm shutoff was only the latest in a string of escalating punishments and only appears arbitrary without that context.

 

[sixone]

Also, we don't know what happened BEFORE this event. It's quite possible that the 10:00pm shutoff was only the latest in a string of escalating punishments and only appears arbitrary without that context.

I'd bet money on it.

 

[Saint Nick]

I once caught my dad surfing porn because I installed a VNC server on their machine. I used that as black mail to get almost everything I wanted.

 

[clamum]

Their milkshakes drug all the grown ups in the yard?

:awe:

"Teens often fear being left out of "once-in-a-lifetime" events, which they might experience on the Internet..."
PFFFFFFFFFTTT

 

[Broheim]

I want to be in bed by 10. So for me, it will keep my son from having unfettered access to that cesspool we call the internet, while I'm in bed. Teenagers did fuck up, and got caught. Everyone learns differently. Teenagers don't necessarily want you around to help them with their mistakes either.

so you wouldn't trust your 15 year old son with the internet, what does that say about your parenting? I had completely unsurpervised internet access at all hours of the day at 15, I always watched porn and fapped right before bed, my parents knew this and did not care; I watched every messed up video, visited every fucked up site and saw every disgusting image the internet had to offer and I still turned out just fine, not because I'm special, but because my parents did a good job early in my life, they knew this and therefore trusted me.
again, if your teenager does not want you to help them with their mistakes, then that is your fault as a parent, I knew there was nothing in this world I could not come to my parents with.

Numerous studies have indicated that teenagers aren't getting enough sleep. Being on the internet after 10PM would certainly contribute to that. Good enough for you?

As adults, people face "arbitrary" rules all the time. They need to learn they don't get to break them just because they feel they have a good reason without consequence. These idiots could have killed the parents.

I will agree that these two girls already have a short in their thought process. Personally, if that was my kid, I would give the child a choice, she can live by her own rules and she can plan to be out of the house, on her own, on her 18th birthday or she could live by my rules and retain family support.

The psychobabble in this article suggesting that these girls actions are somehow understand is ridiculous.

-KeithP

I didn't have a curfew when I was 15, as long as I texted my mom where I was I could stay out as late as I wanted to. The only rule was that I had to get up for school on time, after a little while of seeing how far I could push it i learned to get in bed by 10-11ish on a school night, not all teens will learn this but cutting them off from the internet most likely wont make them go to bed either. (actually teens are biologically inclined to not get enough sleep because they don't produce sleep inducing hormones until about the same time as an adult does but require more sleep than an adult, this is why it's hard to get a teenager out of bed in the morning)

yes, as adults we face arbitrary rules, but we always have a say in the matter, if we don't like it we have the freedom to go somewhere else, teenagers don't enjoy this freedom. every little arbitrary rule is something we "sign up for" as an adult, teenagers didn't ask to be born and then legally bound to you with no say in the matter. the whole "my life sucks so I must make your life suck so you are prepared for the suckiness to come" is a little unsettling to me.

you are right that there is a "short" in their thought process, and it's a short caused by bad parenting (barring some physical defect that has caused a mental problem), no "ordinary" teenager would actually do something like this to their parents, they'd probably entertain the thought, but they wouldn't follow through on it.

your "solution" is a reasonable one, but do understand, it would be a reflection on your parenting skills and failure as a parent that it would have to come to that.

 

[diesbudt]

I once caught my dad surfing porn because I installed a VNC server on their machine. I used that as black mail to get almost everything I wanted.

My dad was a computer software engineer and developer... thus I could not sneak anything by him.

 

[diesbudt]

:awe:

"Teens often fear being left out of "once-in-a-lifetime" events, which they might experience on the Internet..."
PFFFFFFFFFTTT

I am thinking parody music created by AT:OT.

We need a singer, and some girls to act this out.

 

[ch33zw1z]

so you wouldn't trust your 15 year old son with the internet, what does that say about your parenting? I had completely unsurpervised internet access at all hours of the day at 15, I always watched porn and fapped right before bed, my parents knew this and did not care; I watched every messed up video, visited every fucked up site and saw every disgusting image the internet had to offer and I still turned out just fine, not because I'm special, but because my parents did a good job early in my life, they knew this and therefore trusted me.
again, if your teenager does not want you to help them with their mistakes, then that is your fault as a parent, I knew there was nothing in this world I could not come to my parents with.

I don't trust the Internet.

Thanks for a personal history lesson. Every parent has choices to make. Your's made theirs. What's good for one may not be good for another.

Will my kids have Internet access? Yes. Will they get to do whatever they want with it whenever they want? No.

You want those privileges? Pay for it yourself when your an adult. The time will come.