ThePS1Fan said:
lacktheknack said:
Cool, I also hope that parents take advantage of this.
And before people say "But you should trust your kids!": If kids were even remotely trustworthy, then using the SmartGlass wouldn't be worth taking advantage.
ThePS1Fan said:
GoldenShadow said:
ThePS1Fan said:
If you need this to know your kids will behave you aren't a good parent. If you use this to dick over your SO then you aren't a good SO.
So monitoring your kids is a sign of a bad parent? What planet are you from?
There's a big difference from keeping sharp things away from toddlers and making sure teenagers don't swear online. Or god help us all see some boobs in a videogame.
That's up to the parent, not you. Stop trying to impose your will on someone else's kids.
And if a parent has no issues with their kids swearing online/seeing boobs, then they won't have issues with seeing it on SmartGlass.
OK, that makes sense, but just gonna throw this out there. Just because the parents don't care about that stuff doesn't mean the kid would be comfortable with their parents seeing it. Everyone should be able to enjoy things privately if they choose so. Monitoring things like credit cards I 100 percent understand but with something like this I feel there needs to be a discussion about boundaries.
I monitor my kids use of his laptop, I do not pry or overly invade his privacy. You can search for keywords, certain sites and other stuff without actually going through his chat or his web history item by item. At the end of the day he is a kid and vulnerable and like any kid might not understand what he is getting into.
If he browses porn fine, I do not even go to the site unless the searches he used or the sites themselves are unusual (as in decapitated animal head sex unusual). What I want to know is if someone could be grooming him, or if for some reason he started hanging around a neo nazi website or anything else worrying.
When he is 16 and buying his own computers he can do what he likes, until then I want to know if he is safe and not going down any dark paths.