This is true. And then what do you do when the thing goes haywire? We’d had some errors in the app lately for it but nothing on kiddos end until now.

Can’t shield from everything but the sex stuff on the internet gets freaky and it’s not like there is a filter specific to control how deep that goes. It’s either all or nothing. Adults know that sex questions and sex images open up a whole Pandora’s box. Children do not and children too young to understand why something makes a tingle are too young to be in that stuff at all, let alone the stuff that comes with the territory but few actually look for.

Eventually he’ll be old enough and goodness I don’t want to even think about that right now, but for now kiddo is too young. Maybe getting close to the age some kids back in my grandparents day would slip a magazine to a son or something but a magazine with some pretty lady and nothing truly explicit in it vs the internet.. are two quite different things. (My only rule if his dad gets him one of those is that it cannot be explicit as he’s too young for that but some sexy poses are okay- kids get curious after all- however I want to pretend I don’t know about it, at least for a little while).

Honestly some of those old pin ups were tamer than some things on television. The internet? Straight up the most explicit porn on search page numero uno.

Some of those old magazines are tame af compared to the internet.

I do get that ‘things were different’ at some point but now… it only takes one system to fail for kids to get access to this stuff in seconds.

I’m well aware he’s gonna grow up and wanna see stuff and that shit happens etc. He’s not ready for this stuff and I sure as hell won’t ever really be ready for him to have grown that much but when it’s time I know he’ll find it.

For now kid just wanted to know how girls butts looked under cloths. He, apparently, realized girls butts are shaped differently in cloths and wanted to know the difference. It’s a really weird question but I’ve honestly heard weirder(kids ask much weirder stuff and he is no exception).

See, when he watches documentaries we can have talks about some of the stuff. History? When we cover the tough stuff? Can talk about it. Can decide together. He knows what we aren’t looking at and why and even contributes to deciding if he wants to see it or not. Not all of it mind. Some things, much like this stuff, are too much.

Kid isn’t even old enough for pg13 movies. Not old enough for porn by a long shot, which btw was what pulled up.