Are they worried about the pr0nz perhaps?

I'm going to answer first , then read what everyone else says.. then I might reply again.

HELL YES!

The kid is six-effing-teen!! In two years the boy will OUT OF THE HOUSE!! -if all goes according mom and dad's 'ultimate plan'.. Anything, but anything the parents wanted to teach him, has been taught to the kid, or the kid teaches it to himself in life.

I mean, he can drive a car, legally, but no computer in the room?
WTF??!

'kay, lets see what everyone else thinks..

ok and whats wrong with a 3.0. im sorry that ur kid isnt good enough for u cuz he had a 3.0 (say he is ur kid) its called trust and if they screw up then u take away for good not run ur house like stalin because you have the power and since you do ur just going to dike about it. somtimes being a hardass all the time isnt the anwser but agian im not the parent so ohh well i guess plus i agree with another reply the kid can drive but no computer? chance at killing himself over him looking at porm or somthing

mistakes will never end its how u learn. u can tell the kid dont touch the stove because its hot but they wont listin and do it anyways. once they burn them selfs they realize hey i cant touch that cuz it hurt me. its how u learn. u learn from ur mistakes

I got a computer in my room when I was 18. I spent too much time on it. Though, I say yes, just know that you'll have to be totally responsible for the time you spend on it. For every bit of entertainment you open with a computer in your room, you close other doors. I'm now trying to catch up on all the reading I missed out on over the past year and a half.

I'm pretty sure I had a computer in my room around about then. That said, it's entirely up to the parents.

It's virtually necessary for school. How are you supposed to get assignments done if the computer is in some noisy lounge room with other people laying about?

Obviously, you should be worried about your parents obsession over FarmVille. If they went to these lengths... You had better have them put on the AF program. Like now. Before their souls are devoured.

I got by at school without a computer of my own, because computers were barely used at school then. But my brother and sister could not, because they are used for everything. I don't exactly understand your grading system, but surely you could tell your parents to filter your internet if tehy're worried about what you'd get up to?

I have one in my room...

Ah, seems they just want to play farmville... Did you pay for the PC parts? If so, point this out to them, and if this is the case then they have no right to even be on it without your express permission. If they paid for the parts and then gave them to you, they still have no right to be on it without your permission because it is still yours. You don't give someone a gift and then ask for it back, ya know?

If that fails (Shouldn't do unless they care only about Farmville and not what is actually right) then just block Farmville.

'kay, read everything.. here's what you do.. drum roll please.


Ask your parents straight up whether they took the computer for the farmsville experience, or because they don't trust you not to love yourself too much (..and why exactly do we need a computer these days to do this? I sure didn't.)

If it's farmville, offer to build them there own gaming rig -give 'em a family discount

If it's the latter, offer to route your internet through their machine, so that they can log all of your internet activity. Once they see a log 300 pages long, they'll forgo actually reading them.. skim it once or twice, won't come across anything naughty (be smart, just DL the pron to yer phone or whatever if you're so inclined. I'm assuming here yer not so inclined..)
and trust is yours again.

btw, offering that the internet can be routed though their computer for monitoring will go a long way towards putting the trust their to start with.

Me thinks this the fairest solution to thouest parental problems, my young squire

I think its a case of we know what we got up to and we don't want them to.


Ugh, I wasn't allowed on the internet for more than five minutes at a time until 2005 when we got broadband.

Well its both a hypocritical and misguided train of thinking imo. You might not want them to do what you did, but if you remember your childhood, your parents didn't want you to do those things either, and you still did them.

Yes, but now I see they were right (well in actual fact they didn't give a [censored], but hypothetically speaking) and I hope to be more efficient at it than they are. Its not hypocritical, because my thinking has changed.

I had one in my room when I was around 12, so yeah, I don't see why you shouldn't be allowed one.

How does that make sense? :wacko:

Wait, are you saying he should take away the kid's computer for good?

Even if they are, who cares? He is old enough to be interested in that sort of stuff.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.

It's hard to be fair since so much has changed.

I had a "pc" in my room at an age younger than you, but that was an old Apple II+.

Now, with broadband technology and internet porm, your parents have a very valid reason to not let you have a computer where they can't see what you are doing.

If that is their concern, it would be a good thing to let you have a PC in your room, but no internet access from it. They could always hard-wire a LAN connection for necessary things like software updates, but otherwise force you to use the laptop/PC in the common room for surfing the 'net.

It might be treating you like a child, but internet porm addiction is a real danger and a real epidemic. You're young and curious. You can't say you'll never be tempted to take a peak when you think nobody will find out.

Wow, really? Internet porm addiction? First of all, watching porm is completely normal, especially at that age, it's part of teens exploring their own sixuality, which believe it or not is important. A sixually confused person will never be as comfortable with him or herself as someone who knows what they like.

pormography is not a drug, it will not make you addicted and force you to watch it constantly. Unless there's an underlying condition present already, such as six addiction. porm really isn't any different from violent games or movies, it does not single handedly corrupt people.

I know my offspring, that is why security and content protocols are in place on their laptops. Their father and I are the adminstrators of the laptops, they are the users. With a secure, password/key protected wireless network in the home, they have the option of where ever indoors they want to use it. They do not have the option to surf online wherever they please.
They may own their laptops, but it is my electricity, my internet connection, my house, and my rules. It's also my and my husband's ass if content that law enfocement may deem illegal were traced to my ip connection. You may be a teen, but your parents aren't. Part of maturity is realising ahead of time that the consequences of your actions affect not only you, but others as well.
So, until it is your house, you are paying all the bills, be glad that you have parents that actually care enough to keep you from downloading stuff you shouldn't.

Dang, all this makes me glad my parents respected my privacy. Now if they wanted to put security junk on the network, that'd be a different story (their network after all), but to snoop through a browser history :shakehead: I'd at least give my kid the common courtesy of asking them instead of going behind their backs. Now if I thought they were building bombs or something, it'd be a different story.

It has nothing to do with trust, it has to do with parental experience, and my children not getting in over their heads. I prefer to let my kids get themselves out of scraqes they get into. That teaches them self reliance. They are more apt to think about the consequences of their behavior if it is their ass which is responsible for it.
We get a report of every single website they visit, on a daily basis.


Let me put it less delicately,
If my fifteen year old son decides he wants to veiw hot naked teens, and he's found out by law enforcement. Big trouble.
Teenagers are underage, and therefore, even though he himself is a teen, he, my husband, or myself can be labeled, at the discretion of the judicial system, a sixual predator. I ain't down with that.

Yep, also, by the laws of many countries, letting an underage kid view pormography is a sixual offence in itself.