By Anonymous - 24/03/2013 10:30 - Australia - Brisbane

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Today, I spent three hours painstakingly installing and configuring some parental control software on my 11-year-old son's laptop after I caught him watching porn. Barely an hour after returning the laptop, I caught him watching yet more porn on it. FML
I agree, your life sucks 36 337
You deserved it 14 718

Same thing different taste

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ArielTheMermaid 17

Is it really necessary for an 11 year old to have his own personal laptop? And OP, unless he bought it himself, you have rights to take it away

TorisaurusRexxx 10

#1, there are many things that could be done to stop him. Snap his computer in half. Turn off the Internet router. Stab him, light him on fire, and dump his body behind McDonalds. Or simply just take the computer away.

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I think you should have a talk with him about **** rather than just blocking it. **** can really **** you up if you're not careful (especially at that age) but it's also part of growing up. Good luck, OP.

Agordoni83 6

An 11 year old shouldn't even have a laptop. He should be outside playing or hanging with his friends

Things have changed. There is no need to tell a child exactly what to do. A parent's duty is to protect their child and raise them to be good. Not tell them where to play. A child is a person too. Not a dog.

A child is a person brought into the world by two people who need to raise it right. Treating an 11year old like an adult is NOT a good idea. In 7 more years this kid can get all indignant when his parents try to control him because he'll be of legal age. At 11 there's still a lot he needs to learn about life, and one way patents teach that is by NOT letting their entitled little brats walk all over them. Eleven year olds are not entitled to have a computer or to be able to watch ****. They haven't even really hit puberty yet, he can wait a few years to watch gross objectification of women by men with greater than average size penises. Until then, OP, sit your son down and talk to him about sex. Tell it's what committed couples do together to show their love for each other. Tell him it should not just be about sexual gratification for the obvious reasons (risking pregnancy or STDs) and he'll grow up with a healthier view on sex than **** will provide for him. **** never shows the outcome of just giving it up to anyone (unplanned pregnancies, having to drop out of school and get a job, undergoing costly treatments for STDs) so talk with him about it.

What the hell's wrong with you? At eleven he's starting puberty, thus discovering his body it's totally normal.

Time is going to freeze for all of you. The new generations won't listen to the same music, watch the same shows and movies, or do things at the same pace as you. If you didn't get a cell phone, an mp3 player, or a laptop until you were much older, that doesn't mean kids and young teens nowadays shouldn't be able to have them. If you feel that strongly about it, send your kids to a Waldorf school. Otherwise, stop whining about how you didn't get this and didn't get that. Technology is more advanced now and is available to more people. Deal with it. And while kids do need guidance and restrictions, don't tell them what they should and shouldn't do for entertainment. If they want to play a video game or something, its ridiculous to say they should be outside playing tag or whatever it is you used to do at their age. As long as they're not hurting anyone, people should go so hard on kids nowadays. Times have changed. Don't be that old person sitting on their porch yelling at everyone. Go with the flow.

I started watching **** when I was that age to. My parents did the same thing, but I knew how to unlock parental controls. so just let it happen, but if it really bothers you just take it away.

dr_snow_bear 29

11 years old with a laptop. Well there's your problem. YDI

I don't get why you make such a fuss about it. It's perfectly normal to discover your body and if he's doing that through watching ****, so be it. I did too.

Maybe it's just me, but an 11 year old is still a child. **** is not how an 11 year old should discover himself. Sex was the furthest thing from my mind when I was 11, and it seems like they are having sex the younger they are.

Everyone is different. Ever thought of that?

Dear judgmental asshole: Jurt because you find pornography deplorable does NOT mean that you should go around insulting people's preferences. As to you saying that those of us on the computer need to go out and get lives I have 2 things to say. 1. You had to use a computer or other internet capable device to make your post, thus you are a hypocrite. 2. Some of us suffer from an invisible yet severely crippling disability known as Social Anxiety which makes it painfully difficult to go out into the real world and socialize. Next time you have a problem with something, simply state your mind, there is no reason to be insulting.

This was meant to be in reply to 97, for some reason it didn't reply right

Your son is starting to go through puberty dude.....he's gonna find some way to watch ****. You can't stop it. Hell, it's natural for him to.