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See? I am the kind of mom that would do that!
One day, I came home from work and my husband gave me a panicked look and said, "We have a problem." Now, I am the rational one and he is NOT, so I calmed him down and asked what it was. He had come home from work to find the printer turned off and when he turned it back on, thumbnail photos of adult websites printed out........pages and pages and pages of them. We have three boys. I immediately knew that one of them hit the wrong key and couldn't stop the evidence of his curiosity from pouring out of the printer. I was slightly amused. The way I see it, it is no different than when the baby boomer fathers were boys and found their fathers magazines and slipped off to the woods with them. It's just easier to find these days. It's right there on the desktop. Granted, there is some warp-inducing material on the web and I don't want my boys exposed to it, but the motivation to look is no different. My plan of action started with figuring out which boy it was. This step was easy. I looked at the browser history and saw that what was searched on was misspelled. I knew immediately which boy, one of them can't spell to save his life. He got the first letter and the last letter but he left out one of the S's in the middle. I waited until he walked into the room when there was only he and I present. I said, "Son, you know how when I ask you a question, I usually already know the answer?" He fell solemn and nodded. I said, "Have you been looking at things on the Internet that you shouldn't have been looking at?" He hung his head and nodded. We went up to his room and discussed all aspects of the industry, the horrors of the lives involved, the harm it does to people, how reality is different, etc. He was mortified that he was having to hear all this from his mother. We, or should I say "I"? talked for two hours. Eventually, he became desensitized and actually started to contribute and ask questions. He admitted that he heard some boys talking at school and was curious. I ended by saying next time, ask me or your father, wait, on second thought, ask me. I told him that if he does that again, we will talk about it for days, include the whole family, and his friends. Then, we will discuss it with our preacher and the counselor at school and we would continue until he was no longer curious............
One day, I came home from work and my husband gave me a panicked look and said, "We have a problem." Now, I am the rational one and he is NOT, so I calmed him down and asked what it was. He had come home from work to find the printer turned off and when he turned it back on, thumbnail photos of adult websites printed out........pages and pages and pages of them. We have three boys. I immediately knew that one of them hit the wrong key and couldn't stop the evidence of his curiosity from pouring out of the printer. I was slightly amused. The way I see it, it is no different than when the baby boomer fathers were boys and found their fathers magazines and slipped off to the woods with them. It's just easier to find these days. It's right there on the desktop. Granted, there is some warp-inducing material on the web and I don't want my boys exposed to it, but the motivation to look is no different. My plan of action started with figuring out which boy it was. This step was easy. I looked at the browser history and saw that what was searched on was misspelled. I knew immediately which boy, one of them can't spell to save his life. He got the first letter and the last letter but he left out one of the S's in the middle. I waited until he walked into the room when there was only he and I present. I said, "Son, you know how when I ask you a question, I usually already know the answer?" He fell solemn and nodded. I said, "Have you been looking at things on the Internet that you shouldn't have been looking at?" He hung his head and nodded. We went up to his room and discussed all aspects of the industry, the horrors of the lives involved, the harm it does to people, how reality is different, etc. He was mortified that he was having to hear all this from his mother. We, or should I say "I"? talked for two hours. Eventually, he became desensitized and actually started to contribute and ask questions. He admitted that he heard some boys talking at school and was curious. I ended by saying next time, ask me or your father, wait, on second thought, ask me. I told him that if he does that again, we will talk about it for days, include the whole family, and his friends. Then, we will discuss it with our preacher and the counselor at school and we would continue until he was no longer curious............
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