[chrisseaton]

If you're having to use technological means to block, rather than your authority, then you've already lost I think.

[bpodgursky]

Ehh... technology keeps getting more addictive, smaller, and always-online, but authority is roughly the same it always was.

I don't think we can be expected to fight a one-sided race forever. At some point you simply have to block the mind-virus games and websites which have been perfectly tailored to infect young minds.

[toolz]

it's wild to me that so many people frame discussions about their kids in terms of "opponents that have to be defeated"

It's not a subject I'm terribly interested or familiar with, but parenting strategies from a distance sound extremely barbaric

[wink]

I think there's a slight difference between 'I have to regulate their daytime use to the minute' or 'I'll shut off access after midnight because I see they are only staying up to do whatever online' - but as I don't have kids I only remember my own teenage self and maybe I was grown up enough to only go to bed slightly later and still got kinda enough sleep. My parents never had to use any technological measures, but they've also not used 'authority' a lot, per se.

[Bancakes]

Kids don't believe in authority.