[Albert Lionheart]

Sometimes I despair, I really do.
I see lots of kid's computers and in most cases I find there is some sort of parental control going on whether it be by personal monitoring or a nanny pack that limits access to sites or time on line or whatever.
A machine brought in this morning - by a nice chap with a very expensive sports car - had threatware on it which thankfully had not gone any further.
The point of this is my complete disapproval of the totally uncontrolled use of this machine by a 10 year old - and judging by the screensaver pictures she is more often than not dressed up like a 22 year old and flaunting it. Unsupervised accounts with MSM and Live Mail, P2P with Limewire - you get the picture.
The same rules of common sense have to apply here in my book - despite appearances and possessions, kids are simply not old enough to play with toys like the internet and makeup because they do not have the maturity to cope with the consequences. And we wonder why, in England anyway, we have a problem with kids drinking to excess, teenage pregnancies and a complete lack of respect for any form of social standards.
And of course Daddy will pay the bill and darling daughter will doubtless hear no more of it.
Am I being unreasonable?

[alan2273]

You are not being unreasonable, but those sort of people are only a minority.
I do not envy children growing up in this age, I did not have such a thing as a computer when I was a kid, or a calculator, but we were healthy and happy, that is not something you can say about the kids of today, and what sort of future have they got to look forward to.

[Albert Lionheart]

Is that a minority that actually exists of a minority we hear about I wonder? I suppose that in my small circle of clients I see about 1 per month and that is still too many. And nobody likes people like me telling them how to be a parent, which is what it comes down to if I have to warn them about what their kids are doing!

[alan2273]

I did not realise that your job required you to be a social worker , just fix it for them and charge them extra for the privilege.

[Albert Lionheart]

And nor was that the intention! But as most of my clients are counted as friends as well I feel sort of obliged to point these things out to them as and when I see them.