A Conversation for How to Teach your Kids the Facts of Life
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Quadrapop on h2g2 Started conversation Jul 27, 2001
Lte's face facts, our children are the Internet Generation. My 3yr old can almost type his name unaided but still cant hold a pencil properly. If he wants to know what pole vaulting is (for instance) a quick search engine query supplies not only pictures but video of pole vaulters in action.
Now if our search had been for "birds & Bees" related info....! Searching for sensible, straight forward, reasonably unbiased info relating to anything sexual on the web calls for really creative back door approaches, so as to exclude unwanted and often disturbing content - even when it looks OK at the search engine end! This is one web search I will be doing well before time and after the kids are in bed asleep! Then I will be prepared with a list of researched favourites that I feel are suitable for my children and their family situation.
It's a sad fact but many of his generation are going to see porn, explicit sex etc on the screen well before they discover dad's stash of penthouse...
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