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Originally Posted by maleficent
but then again, I don't think that 14 year olds are entitled to all that much privacy
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Read that part twice, because it's the most important thing to remember. You're the parent. You're directly responsible for anything your did does until he's an adult. The kid has no expectation of privacy. Any you grant him, he has to earn.
Now you've caught him surfing to places he shouldn't be. He's not earned any privacy.
I wouldn't go behind his back in installing the software - - he doesn't need to think of you as the spook. Tell him upfront. I'm installing the software. If I catch you going to these sites again, I'm removing the computer.
And then you'll need to check his computer quite often because kids are almost always better than parents with technology. My parents used to lock the computer on me when they weren't around (this was long before the days of monitoring software
- - -too bad they never knew I knew how to bypass the lock. Your kid will probably have the software bypassed an hour after you install it