Just wondered if you print comments that are at odds with any of your statements. If so, here’s one;
All the time – as reading most of the previous comments would have shown you.
Be assured that I do not take part in the debate;
Well, actually that is what you are doing now.
however, I do take a strong oppositional stance about children not having a computer in their own room.
Good for you. What is that stance in opposition to? Here, Heather is (IMHO of course) talking about the folly of parents abrogating their responsibilities to a games rating organisation which may, or may not, hold the same values as you do. That is very different to talking about where the PC should be located.
There is a whole different argument about how much supervision parents should subject their children to but that is not what this post was about. There does come the point at which parents need to realise children want (and should have) trust and privacy. Surely the better option is to teach the child how to remain safe then trust them to implement this. We are bringing up a generation of children under the idea that only constant surveillance and supervision keeps people safe. Is it any wonder this has knock on effects with society as a whole?
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Isn’t there something wrong when a society clamps down on fantasy violence, but still permits children as young as five to be exposed to the Richard Littlejohn column in the Daily Mail?
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