charlesoberonn:lizluvscupcakes: thegreenpea: outofpocket-prince: silent-calling: You teach them resp
charlesoberonn:lizluvscupcakes: thegreenpea: outofpocket-prince: silent-calling: You teach them responsibility by entrusting them with these devices. You teach them teamwork by taking them away at night and storing them in your room. My dad kept the computer locked and monitored (and only used when under direct supervision), an intolerable situation to which my little brother and I reacted with gusto. We set up a camera to get the password, coded password guessers, bootcamped a Mac to allow us to use an entirely different system, and figured out various ways to avoid logging internet activity, logins, and even the hidden camera my dad set up. He would discover our new hack and put even more restrictions (he is very computer literate), and we would crack it again. We learned computer security just because my dad didn’t want us to. I breezed through AP comp sci into a tech field. Ironically, I was introduced to porn because I was looking for another bypass and stumbled into a BDSM site so I can also blame my dad for me being a freaky ho. Out of all the responses to this post. Yours was my favourite. I cried laughing when I saw the last paragraph Another hard lesson for controlling parents!You can tighten the leash all you want but they’ll find creative ways of getting it off. Get an unbreakable leash and they’ll simply make you wish they’d never been born. “Show me a ten foot wall and I’ll show you an eleven foot ladder.” I actually don’t think collecting up cell phones and iPads at night is necessarily controlling or out-of-bounds parenting, depending on how old the kids involved are.I am very impressed at the kids for apparently spontaneously recreating Improv Everywhere’s “cell phone symphony” prank upon the Strand Bookstore. -- source link