How to Get Kids Off Inappropriate Contents

<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>