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Do you think Melania allows Barron unrestricted access to the internet... (Original Post) brooklynite Jan 2018 OP
Kids find a way to get online even if parents restrict access. Irish_Dem Jan 2018 #1
Yep. If he has a phone, he has access... Phentex Jan 2018 #9
When my daughter was little I found out she had regular online interaction Irish_Dem Jan 2018 #14
Secret service may control whether he has a phone. Ilsa Jan 2018 #15
I have been thinking about this mercuryblues Jan 2018 #2
She probably doesn't let him watch tv either. SummerSnow Jan 2018 #3
No... Mike Nelson Jan 2018 #4
Trump on Barron's computer skills Generic Other Jan 2018 #5
Post removed Post removed Jan 2018 #6
That's really unkind. nolabear Jan 2018 #12
Barron Trump is 11 years old PJMcK Jan 2018 #7
He may have other issues himself. Ilsa Jan 2018 #18
No, he probably just has video games and G/PG- rated movies to watch wishstar Jan 2018 #8
He's 11 crazycatlady Jan 2018 #13
Barron probably is being raised like his brothers and sisters. He just thinks "Go Dad" LiberalArkie Jan 2018 #10
Not since he was traumatized by Kathy griffin Takket Jan 2018 #11
I doubt that kids is all there...I think he has some disability. Demsrule86 Jan 2018 #16
I don't know, but we should leave the kid alone. MineralMan Jan 2018 #17

Phentex

(16,334 posts)
9. Yep. If he has a phone, he has access...
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 10:35 AM
Jan 2018

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)
14. When my daughter was little I found out she had regular online interaction
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 03:49 PM
Jan 2018

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)
15. Secret service may control whether he has a phone.
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 04:01 PM
Jan 2018

They have to be careful about triangulating his location, etc.

mercuryblues

(14,557 posts)
2. I have been thinking about this
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 10:00 AM
Jan 2018

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.

Mike Nelson

(9,986 posts)
4. No...
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 10:17 AM
Jan 2018

...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)
5. Trump on Barron's computer skills
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 10:22 AM
Jan 2018

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)

PJMcK

(22,071 posts)
7. Barron Trump is 11 years old
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 10:26 AM
Jan 2018

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)
18. He may have other issues himself.
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 04:06 PM
Jan 2018

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.

LiberalArkie

(15,738 posts)
10. Barron probably is being raised like his brothers and sisters. He just thinks "Go Dad"
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 11:17 AM
Jan 2018

"You the man". etc

MineralMan

(146,351 posts)
17. I don't know, but we should leave the kid alone.
Fri Jan 19, 2018, 04:05 PM
Jan 2018

He has enough troubles already. He's just 11. Not really fodder for our musings, I think.

He's not responsible for his father.

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