Even in defeat, I try to be entertaining
Jul. 27th, 2008 05:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsWell, I finally had to give up and install a household filter. Omaha will protest that this was a lot more work than it should have been, and I would be inclined to agree with her if it handn't been a simple matter of installing two pieces of software the old-fashioned way: ./configure && make && sudo make install. I had forgotten just how underpowered the household router is: it's a Pentium M, 286MhZ machine with 32MB of ram and a 4GB drive. Still, it's been an absolute rock for the past six years. But we might have to up it a bit if we're asking it to do filtering.
Part of me is convinced that this is a failure: I haven't taught my kids well enough about what's good to put into their minds, and what isn't. On the other hand, I still can't watch them all the time, even when their computer is in the den where everyone can see it. And using SARG will at least give me an idea if they're trying repeatedly to get into things that I need to talk to them about.
Don't Go There But you know me. I can't leave well enough alone. I hated the template for the warning, so I pulled it up in emacs and edited it. Omaha and I posed for a photograph. This is what you see if you try to navigate to Fleshbot. Whaddya think?
Part of me is convinced that this is a failure: I haven't taught my kids well enough about what's good to put into their minds, and what isn't. On the other hand, I still can't watch them all the time, even when their computer is in the den where everyone can see it. And using SARG will at least give me an idea if they're trying repeatedly to get into things that I need to talk to them about.
Don't Go There
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Date: 2008-07-28 05:55 pm (UTC)My daughter (10) has the same issue with shiny stuff, and refuses to go through the "training" that we've offered her. Hence, she has (very) limited computer use privileges. When she's willing to sit still for an explanation and demonstrate that she's understood it, she'll get the license-to-click. It's kind of like getting license to drive, or (in our household) to walk around town (we're in Port Townsend, which is very safe AS SOON AS the basic rules had been internalized.)
Interestingly, my kids were very (very very very) different about the urgency they felt about this. That led to very different rules at different ages, and the inevitable "how come HE can and I can't?" - which got the response "he passed the road test, you haven't".