Quote Originally Posted by Troggie View Post
I will have to show this thread to my wife.. and then she will understand why I have a strict filtering & logging policy on my home servers and why I have a keylogger on the computer my daughter uses currently.
A colleague where I work has three daughters from 14 to 21, and he has also locked down the network at home. I'm not sure I'd go that far... it's such a difficult line to tread between exerting control and giving your children space to grow and to build trust with them. I don't think I'd log their keystrokes and then analyse them, in the same way I wouldn't sneak into their room and look through their stuff. But nor would I let them have unfettered and unsupervised access to the internet (our kids know to ask every time they want to boot up then PC -- and if they don't, it gets shut down immediately). But then, my colleague's daughters have turned out to be fine young women, so who's to say what is OTT?

Our boy is 8 and for the first time last week we let him go to the local shops on his own. He took his weekly £2 pocket money with him to buy whatever he wanted and when he came back I saw what he bought and noted that his change didn't match the total he was supposed to have spent. I immediately got suspicious and quizzed him, expecting some lame story. He told me he had seen someone on the street collecting for charity and had given them 20p. I asked him what they said. He told me they said "Thank you, young man."

I resolved to be more trusting in future. And was fit to burst with pride.