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by reify 269 days ago
Firstly, as a retired psychotherapist and play therapist, you are severely destroying the most important thing being a parent. TRUST!

I have two daughters and a son who are fully functioning adults.

I did not act like a control freak, or intervene in their lives. I educated them about the horrors of being online. I had a talk with them and trusted them to be safe. I made myself fully available if they had any problems online.

Why would any rational compassionate loving parent add any ai product to monitor their child.

My god man! Its like looking in her personal diary every day.

you are creating the perfect panopticon environment, and we know the damage that, that does to a human being.

A proper parent does it like this:

Be honest with your daughter and tell her you will be monitoring her PC/laptop to keep her safe.

Tell her you will manually turn off your router every night at 10pm, or whatever time you choose.

I would be extremely concerned about using any google stuff, after all they will be hoovering up every thing she does online. In my view this is more dangerous than giving her a free reign to do what she wants online. fuck off with the ai bullshit.

Its not the bogie men she needs to worry about. Its you and big tech.

I see another psychologically damaged child who eventually abandons you because you are a control freak.

I dont want any bonus points