Reply To: BT wants to raise children without internet access…

zahavasdad: I use the internet for school (community college) and I know that there are practical uses for it. I do agree that computer literacy is important for children. When my children start needing to type assignments for school, I would get a used laptop with usb ports, disable the internet and put microsoft office suite on it so that they can type their school work and then i would print the documents from a different computer. I want an internet filter on my own devices myself as well. I feel like if my kids want to know about black friday, I should just take them shopping instead of them seeing it on a computer screen. I don’t mind if my kids text on their phones but I feel like anything beyond that hampers social development. If my kid wants a denim skirt, as long as it would not be an issue for them (so if I live in a community where people would look down at them even if I bought my kid the skirt I would get it and request that they only wear it when she is in places where it wouldn’t be an issue/ get a denim headband…) I would rather her have that then go off because its associated with a political statement in someone’s else’s mind.