We have 3 sons (they turned 9, 13 and 15). We are controlling a lot what they can access with their mobiles (the youngest one has no mobile phone) and tablet. We use family link and NextDNS to remove access to pornography, gambling, dating, etc. But leave quite some freedom outside of these stuff.
Discussing with them, especially the oldest one, I was pretty shocked to learn what the friends are looking at. Most of the 12+ year old kids have now mobile phones without any restrictions and are regularly accessing all the pornographic websites you can imagine. Some can spend up to 10h per "school" day in front of the screen, 18h during the weekend.
We are lucky to have kids doing a lot of sport, we control relatively well what they access without "whitelisting before" and try to get them to learn the environment they are navigating in, but this is really hard work.
This is hard work against companies spending billions to make our hard work ineffective. <-- this is what annoy me the most.
We have 3 sons (they turned 9, 13 and 15). We are controlling a lot what they can access with their mobiles (the youngest one has no mobile phone) and tablet. We use family link and NextDNS to remove access to pornography, gambling, dating, etc. But leave quite some freedom outside of these stuff.
Discussing with them, especially the oldest one, I was pretty shocked to learn what the friends are looking at. Most of the 12+ year old kids have now mobile phones without any restrictions and are regularly accessing all the pornographic websites you can imagine. Some can spend up to 10h per "school" day in front of the screen, 18h during the weekend.
We are lucky to have kids doing a lot of sport, we control relatively well what they access without "whitelisting before" and try to get them to learn the environment they are navigating in, but this is really hard work.
This is hard work against companies spending billions to make our hard work ineffective. <-- this is what annoy me the most.