I understand. I was also blindsided enough by the ICP to at least be distracted from the pain.
I didn't make the cupcakes, dude, that as all Grant. I COULD do a skirt, though, y'know. It zips in the back. Super easy.
She is good. AND ENORMOUS.
We don't have an hours per day rule yet, though that may come into play based on her. She does not have to share that with anyone, though she will probably choose to share it with Aaron. She is a mix of loving letting Elise play with her Groovy Girls and old dance costumes and things, and NOT wanting the little boys in her room at all and being understandably paranoid about them ransacking her things.
We put some controls on the laptop, like we know she'll go to You Tube for things that are totally ok (like Sesame Street guest musicians and Justin Roberts and things) so we signed her up with an account where she has to log in and it's set to really strict filtering. We also put mega-controls on the internet so that nothing sexed up or gory or whatever will come through, but we are also still working out the details of how we feel about that...traditionally they've had a list of sites they're allowed to go to (Starfall and PBSKids and ThinkGeek and some other older kid educational game sites...) and they've had to ask for any new sites. I'm considering letting her have a lot more free reign with the controls in place.
AN ASIDE: It kind of blows my mind that GLBT is listed along with "porn" and "murder" and "nudity" and "extreme" (?) as a default category that won't come through when you do a strict search. Like we had to uncheck the GLBT box or else things like the PFLAG site wouldn't come through???? Also "sex education". I guess it is controversial but there are other options, like you can make it so nothing about abortion comes through for instance. I don't know, I was just sitting there doing test searches on words like "lesbian" and "penis" and even image searches with all the other "safety" in place, and you only get really totally ok stuff. Anatomical drawings. So now I'm thinking of how I WANT her to be able to research independently over the coming months and years if she wants to and, I dunno. I guess that's it.
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Date: 2010-06-07 06:46 pm (UTC)I didn't make the cupcakes, dude, that as all Grant. I COULD do a skirt, though, y'know. It zips in the back. Super easy.
She is good. AND ENORMOUS.
We don't have an hours per day rule yet, though that may come into play based on her. She does not have to share that with anyone, though she will probably choose to share it with Aaron. She is a mix of loving letting Elise play with her Groovy Girls and old dance costumes and things, and NOT wanting the little boys in her room at all and being understandably paranoid about them ransacking her things.
We put some controls on the laptop, like we know she'll go to You Tube for things that are totally ok (like Sesame Street guest musicians and Justin Roberts and things) so we signed her up with an account where she has to log in and it's set to really strict filtering. We also put mega-controls on the internet so that nothing sexed up or gory or whatever will come through, but we are also still working out the details of how we feel about that...traditionally they've had a list of sites they're allowed to go to (Starfall and PBSKids and ThinkGeek and some other older kid educational game sites...) and they've had to ask for any new sites. I'm considering letting her have a lot more free reign with the controls in place.
AN ASIDE: It kind of blows my mind that GLBT is listed along with "porn" and "murder" and "nudity" and "extreme" (?) as a default category that won't come through when you do a strict search. Like we had to uncheck the GLBT box or else things like the PFLAG site wouldn't come through???? Also "sex education". I guess it is controversial but there are other options, like you can make it so nothing about abortion comes through for instance. I don't know, I was just sitting there doing test searches on words like "lesbian" and "penis" and even image searches with all the other "safety" in place, and you only get really totally ok stuff. Anatomical drawings. So now I'm thinking of how I WANT her to be able to research independently over the coming months and years if she wants to and, I dunno. I guess that's it.