Your ten year old comes home from school one day complaining about the 'funny watch' they made hir wear at school during gym class. You do some checking, and it turns out that it's a device called a 'Polar active monitor,' and the school plans on phasing in a program whereby they'll have students wearing them for longer periods of time (including ( Read more... )

I've heard a lot of people saying that they'd require their kids' passwords and that they'd monitor their kids' internet usage pretty tightly. How does the booj feel about this? Would you require your kids to tell you their LJ account information, their e-mail passwords, keylog their movements and whatnot? How would you implement this? Would you, ( Read more... )

Imagine that you have at least two kids, of whom one writes a diary ( Read more... )

Not hypothetical.

You own a home in a residential neighborhood in a small to medium sized city with relatively low crime rates. You mostly keep to yourself and don't meddle in your neighbors' affairs, and you are cordial but not particularly friendly with them.

One day, your neighbor (who does meddle in the affairs of neighbors) approaches you as ( 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?

Re: the privacy fence and naked kids in the pool ( Read more... )

You have a pool behind a privacy fence in your back yard. Your kids (under 10 years old) streak through the house and jump in the pool naked from time to time ( Read more... )

You have a daughter, let's say she is under the age of 5, and she is outside playing. Either she is alone or you are with her and momentarily distracted by a younger child\a pet\your rosebushes\the viper attacking your ankle. Your daughter runs over to the neighbor's window, peeks in through a small space between the curtains, and sees your male ( Read more... )

What are your boundaries as far as privacy is concerned at home ( Read more... )

Would you forbid your kids from ever coming into your bedroom? As in, even stepping foot in there?

What do you think of a mom who says she will punish her kids for setting foot in her bedroom?

(brought to you by Kate Gosselin, of Jon & Kate + 8)