. . . or something like that. I was chatting with a colleague at work about our kids and online safety. Our rule is no PCs in the bedrooms - all PCs are in plain site in the kitchen area. He had the same rule but now his oldest is 16 and wanted to connect his Ipod Touch to the home WiFi - at that age there's not too much you can do.
He said that he did install some filters once but as his kids began to do research for school they kept getting blocked, so he would have to unblock it after he got home from work, etc. and eventually it became unwieldy.
He did have a clever idea, though. He told his sons when they were pre-teens that he had installed some special Microsoft software, only sold to businesses, that would monitor incoming and outgoing web browsing, email and IM traffic and send him a report every week. Since it was "business software" he figured his kids couldn't ask around to find a way to hack it.
As long as they believe that is the case, you're in good shape.
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