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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo you think Melania allows Barron unrestricted access to the internet...
...I'd hate to think what he'd find if he typed in some porn star's name.
Irish_Dem
(47,945 posts)It is almost a losing battle.
Phentex
(16,334 posts)if he has friends, he has access. I've known parents to put on all kinds of controls and it mainly helps when the kids are at home.
Irish_Dem
(47,945 posts)on the school bus to and from school and at lunch via other kid's phones.
Some of the stuff she saw was not age-appropriate.
I couldn't believe it.
Ilsa
(61,712 posts)They have to be careful about triangulating his location, etc.
mercuryblues
(14,557 posts)if he types in daddy's name, he will find out his father
paid other women for sex when his mother gave birth to him
laundered money for the Russian mob/ people have been killed so he can maintain his style of living
had prostitutes pee for him
his insults
and much more
They can't shield him forever.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)If he has a cell phone he is seeing so much
Mike Nelson
(9,986 posts)...he would easily find his own mom's soft-core lesbian photo shoot...wait until he's older and tell him about her photos and his father's sex-capades, first.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)I have a son. He's 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it's unbelievable.
Response to brooklynite (Original post)
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nolabear
(42,004 posts)PJMcK
(22,071 posts)Of course he uses the internet but as you intimate, brooklynite, his use may be monitored or restricted. But whatever his access is today, in the next 1-2 years, he'll have unfettered access. As with most kids, he'll experiment and surf just as we all do.
A more interesting-- if private-- issue is this question: What has Melania told Barron about his father? What will she tell him as he gets older? When we were raising our son, teaching him things at age-appropriate levels was a constant source of stress. Melania's toughest parenting issue may be not when to have "The Sex Talk" but when to have "The Your-Father's-a-Sex-Freak Talk."
Ah, screw her. She knew who she was marrying.
Ilsa
(61,712 posts)I have been told by more than one specialist in Special Education that he is suspected of having a developmental, possibly cognitive, pathological diagnosis. Can't be certain, and it isn't worth betting on, but plenty of people suspect it.
That may affect his curiosity and ability to surf.
wishstar
(5,273 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)i grew up very sheltered and even by then I was watching PG-13 movies
LiberalArkie
(15,738 posts)"You the man". etc
Takket
(21,703 posts)Demsrule86
(68,800 posts)MineralMan
(146,351 posts)He has enough troubles already. He's just 11. Not really fodder for our musings, I think.
He's not responsible for his father.