<p>Okay, I know this got nothing to do with homeschooling, but since there are many wise moms here, I decided to post here. I hope you guys don’t mind.</p>
<p>At my parents education center, we placed about eleven computers in a room so that the students can use them for homework or sometimes even games. the thing is that, we have started to spot some boys looking at inappropriate, and I mean sexually inappropriate, contents.</p>
<p>What worries us most is that these boys are only 1st grade-4th grade. When you check their history they have typed in websites such as sex.com or boobs.com. and when we downloaded a shield that keeps them from visiting such sites, they seem to find themselves out of it by googling or yahoo searching words like ‘girls having sex’ or ‘naked britney spears’. also, on cartoonnetwork adultswim site they can always play games that show bit of nudity from time to time.</p>
<p>Any advice will be appreciated. getting complaints from parents is one thing, but ruining their gender respect is even a bigger thing.</p>
<p>I have more than enough respect for the opposite gender, but I look at “risque” or otherwise “pornographic” material from time-to-time. Don’t think that because a man may find a woman’s body tantalizing that he in anyway is disrespecting her.</p>
<p>But, if you find it problematic, you can try to approach it proactively, and explain to them how it’s not an appropriate use of the computers. At that age, even though I did try to sneak peeks at Playboy, I was usually a good boy and wouldn’t look at things I was told not to look at.</p>
<p>Or try more draconian measures, and block out search engines.</p>
<p>how do you do this? we managed to block out websites using freeshield, but i don’t know how to block out search engines…i mean, people still need them for homework and everything.</p>
<p>PrEpKiD, I managed a computer lab, and it’s not an easy thing to control. Arranging the computers so whoever is monitoring can see all the computers helps a lot. </p>
<p>You have to be very clear about the rules, and the consequences for breaking them. Exactly what consequences you set depends on your situation, but the important thing is that there are clear rules with clear consequences, and that they are strictly enforced. In the lab I managed, you were out for a week if you broke the rules once, and out for good if you did it again. </p>
<p>I’m not a prude and it’s a tough thing to do when you don’t personally like restricting people, but it can be done with respect. I always just explained that if I let them go anywhere they wanted, pretty soon we’d have to close the place down because parents would be up in arms. </p>
<p>I had to permanently boot out one of my favorite students and it broke my heart, but it would have spoiled it for the others if I had let it go.</p>