What are you supposed to do to keep your kids safe "from the Internet"? Last week, Bub signed up for a Twitter account. He just turned six. The only reason we found out was because he used his father's email address.
He denies it was he who signed up for the account at five something in the morning. While everyone else was sleeping. We have a Chromebook that we let him use for Khan Academy and Memrise (he works on Mandarin and memorizing his multiplication tables). But apparently we're going to have to have someone sitting and monitoring him (likely, me) because otherwise, who knows what he'll do.
Hubby is looking into solutions and has been playing with the router, but we don't have a computer on at all times to control the Chromebook (yeah, I know, maybe we should).
I didn't think we'd have to worry about this until he was at least in fifth grade or so. Good thing he doesn't realize how easy it is to get an email address.
As it is, I recently realized that he's more proficient on a computer than my mother. Now we must teach him to use his power for good, and not evil.
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