The Net
The internet, the great, super highway is huge and wide open and you never know what you're bound to discover the next time you click. The cool thing about it is it's yours for exploring and only limited by the searches you make.
I remember back then when all you needed to know could be found in Encyclopedia Britannica, these heavy leather-bound tomes that could easily cause serious damage to toes if you ever had the misfortune of one falling on your foot. I've always wondered how long they researched, wrote, edited, proof-read and revised those volumes before they finally saw print. Decades? Centuries? It seems.
My three kids will probably never have a use for my old set which I have packed away and stored long ago. What for, when they now have, at the tip of their keyboards, access to all that they need to know. The downside, of course, is that there's so much more they don't need to know, that is also made too accessible for them.
Porn, cults, violence, extreme idealogy and the like are just there for easy access and I wouldn't be surprised that at any given point, my girls, being curious kids, have come across any one of them. As a parent, I worry about what kind of info they get whenever they surf and admittedly, I haven't done my part to ensure that they have limited access to certain sites.
The net is a great resource for learning where you can appreciate how technology is at work by leaps and bounds. And then again it can be one's Pandora's box, unleashing swarms of evil that's triggered only by one's curiosity.
In this case, I could not rightly judge if I should do the censoring for what my kids could or could not see, for that goes against the grain of trust and openess we foster around home. As a parent, I make the judgement call of giving them freedom to make their choices, as long as they are properly warned and know what is off-limits. The wheel is in their hands, and I say, let them drive. After all, it's a great, super highway out there, huge and wide open, and there are many good places to see.
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I remember back then when all you needed to know could be found in Encyclopedia Britannica, these heavy leather-bound tomes that could easily cause serious damage to toes if you ever had the misfortune of one falling on your foot. I've always wondered how long they researched, wrote, edited, proof-read and revised those volumes before they finally saw print. Decades? Centuries? It seems.
My three kids will probably never have a use for my old set which I have packed away and stored long ago. What for, when they now have, at the tip of their keyboards, access to all that they need to know. The downside, of course, is that there's so much more they don't need to know, that is also made too accessible for them.
Porn, cults, violence, extreme idealogy and the like are just there for easy access and I wouldn't be surprised that at any given point, my girls, being curious kids, have come across any one of them. As a parent, I worry about what kind of info they get whenever they surf and admittedly, I haven't done my part to ensure that they have limited access to certain sites.
The net is a great resource for learning where you can appreciate how technology is at work by leaps and bounds. And then again it can be one's Pandora's box, unleashing swarms of evil that's triggered only by one's curiosity.
In this case, I could not rightly judge if I should do the censoring for what my kids could or could not see, for that goes against the grain of trust and openess we foster around home. As a parent, I make the judgement call of giving them freedom to make their choices, as long as they are properly warned and know what is off-limits. The wheel is in their hands, and I say, let them drive. After all, it's a great, super highway out there, huge and wide open, and there are many good places to see.
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