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Re: Is Robert Scoble a good parent? is exposing a 12 year old to online porn and gambling a good thing?

Robert Scoble — Fri, 12 May 2006 01:24:19 -0000

It's a tough world to raise a kid in. I know my approach doesn't agree with many others. Most parents try to shield their kids from anything bad. I think that approach is going to backfire in today's world.

My job as a parent is to prepare my son for the adult world, not to shield him from it.

I remember someone I knew in high school drank himself to death (not on purpose, either). Why? Cause he didn't have the skills to deal with the peer pressure and didn't know the dangers.

My son won't be such a casualty.

Re: Is Robert Scoble a good parent? is exposing a 12 year old to online porn and gambling a good thing?

Hsien Lei — Thu, 11 May 2006 04:41:36 -0000

Instead of feeling angry or disgusted at Robert Scoble, I feel sad. Especially after his comment. :( It's so hard to raise kids the "right" way. I struggle with that every day and I'd venture a guess that everyone does too. If you, Duncan, and Robert didn't care a whit, neither of you would be writing about it. But the fact that you both are means you're both thinking and that's a good thing.

Re: Is Robert Scoble a good parent? is exposing a 12 year old to online porn and gambling a good thing?

Jon — Wed, 10 May 2006 23:14:49 -0000

That's a great post, Duncan. I enjoyed reading it. I'm not gonna wade in with an opinion because I can barely look after myself and I have no idea how I would look after a child.

Re: Is Robert Scoble a good parent? is exposing a 12 year old to online porn and gambling a good thing?

Jesse — Wed, 10 May 2006 14:31:34 -0000

I see your point, Robert.

It reminds of some story about two neighbors who were best friends, and they desperately wanted their kids to marry. Thus while their kids were growing up they pretended to hate each other and told their kids never to go near the neighbor's kid.

And guess what happened?

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Robert Scoble — Wed, 10 May 2006 14:27:49 -0000

I watch how my son uses Second Life and he has no interest in the adult parts of it.

The problem is, I am a bad parent. I have no control over where he goes. Why? He lives 1,000 miles away from me and he has a computer that he controls and his mom has no interest in.

When he was seven years old he, and a bunch of friends, visited a porn site (whitehouse.com). Why? Cause his teacher told him not to. That was real bright. When you tell kids not to do something the first thing they want to do is check it out when they are out of your control.

By not making it a big deal I haven't given him a guilt complex and I haven't given him any more incentive to try and check out this stuff.

It also means he talks with me about what goes on on the playground (it's far worse than what happens in Second Life, believe me) and he also tells me about everything he sees in Second Life.

Re: Is Robert Scoble a good parent? is exposing a 12 year old to online porn and gambling a good thing?

Jesse — Wed, 10 May 2006 09:22:12 -0000

Yeah, I think learning from parents and not friends or internet searches or whatever is best, but I can't help but wonder if playing an adult video game with your son is the best way of teaching...

and yeah, 12 is young

Re: Is Robert Scoble a good parent? is exposing a 12 year old to online porn and gambling a good thing?

Anonymous, sorry — Wed, 10 May 2006 05:16:39 -0000

I enjoy reading Robert, but his post didn't make much sense. If you extrapolate his argument you could easily go the route of "well, I don't buy into these rules of society that say I can't randomly assault people, so don't tell me I can't punch you if I feel like it!" Societal boundaries are there for, amongst other reasons, protection. The same law makers that protect me from getting regularly beaten by strangers have the same social responsibility to protect children from harmful things - in this case society deems certain elements of Second Life as harmful to twelve year olds.

Hope you don't mind the (public) anonymity!

Re: Is Robert Scoble a good parent? is exposing a 12 year old to online porn and gambling a good thing?

duncan — Wed, 10 May 2006 01:03:25 -0000

And look, to be honest I believe it's best that kids do eventually find out about this sort of stuff in the supervision of a parent, alcohol, gambling, that sort of thing, but 12 is way, way to young in my books.

Re: Is Robert Scoble a good parent? is exposing a 12 year old to online porn and gambling a good thing?

Jesse — Tue, 09 May 2006 23:30:06 -0000

Actually, now that I read his post I see were you're coming from. I thought you were starting a fight based on an offhand comment in one of his posts, but when he does a whole write-up on it he's obviously asking for it.

All I can say is I'm glad I wasn't raised that way. How mature a kid is doesn't have anything to do with whether or not they should be seeing adult content

Re: Is Robert Scoble a good parent? is exposing a 12 year old to online porn and gambling a good thing?

Jesse — Tue, 09 May 2006 23:25:11 -0000

Just in case, I'd suggest you get your flame suite on...