A teacher in Montreal showed the video 1 Man 1 Icepick to a class of 10th Graders. If you haven't heard of it, it shows the real life murder, dismemberment, mutilation, and necrophilia of the lover of a man suspected to be Luka Magnotta.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2158741/Teacher-shows-class-video-Canadian-cannibal-Luka-Magnotta- ( Read more... )

paying for a background check on a babysitter/nanny/au pair/mother's helper: good parenting, paranoid parenting, or something else ( Read more... )

You're looking for an important holiday picture on your family's computer and while burrowing through the C drive you find TONS of illegal porn. Your fourteen year old son uses the computer most often and last week was caught downloading legal porn, lied about it, and is now being punished. The illegal porn files are dated to indicate that they ( Read more... )

So, you have a teenage son and daughter. Your daughter tells you your son has beer in his room and you ground him for it. In revenge, he posts this to Facebook.

Who do you punish? Your daughter for her behaviour? Your son for posting it? Both? Or was she fair game?

Is your daughter entitled to revenge? Will it all spiral out of control?

A few questions, prompted by this article1.) Would you ever install web monitoring/keylogger software to monitor your child's online activity, or do you feel this is an invasion of their privacy? If this is something you'd never do, how do you plan to monitor what your child views online ( Read more... )

I have seen quite a few parents unwilling to share photos of their children on the internet. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a person protecting their child's identity. That's totally cool with me ( Read more... )

When it comes to online socialising where do you draw the line? Do you insist on knowing emails and passwords? If so at what age would this stop? Do you check regularly or just when you have reason to worry? Do you let them have Internet in their rooms? Do you put a net nanny on to your computers?

Do you think the obsession with "attachment parenting", breastfeeding, cloth diapers, etc. on the internet is helpful or harmful to new mothers seeking advice ( Read more... )

You're all grown up (18+) child posts something you deem vulgar to a networking site like Myspace, or Facebook. The child knows you follow their page, so you're not really snooping on your kid's social life ( Read more... )

Would you let your kids go to a random slumber party that you saw advertised on craigslist? Would your answer change if the people running the slumber party had excellent references or if you knew someone who had had a positive experience with them? Does the age of the child matter?

Inspired by this ad and this response to the ad.