Pokémon Go.
Exercise and gaming 👍

true this, a great step 1 to get screen addicted kids out of the house.

a small lego set takes up the same space as a phone basically. just sayin

Absolutely great response!

Try the endless series

My understanding is that there's a service called apple play or similar.

It's a subscription which is lame, but for a small cost you get access to a large number of games. The real boon of this service is that none of the games have predatory or manipulative cash shops.

Urm mines now 20 but a couple of observations

1, that’s one rich kid to be able to afford little biggy rates maybe if your kids got access to that kind if cash maybe start there.

2, my boy had about 5 dealers in his school class. County lines is rife you’ve got 12 year olds with black bags full of weed and much much worse - much more if an issue imo one of them got robbed and the little bastards raped him, a 15 year old and they videoed it and distributed it. I bet his parents wished he was on little biggy

3, again loads of fake prescription drugs online which the kids go mad for, fake vallium and adderal which are actually killing people

I get what your saying and yes I’m a parent and certainly won’t be encouraging weed use but on the list of things as a parent I worry about, this is pretty low on my list. Also I agree with nick In the respect that most 14 year olds are more tech savvy than us oldies and will laugh at our controls while bypassing them.

Holy crap - then why ISN'T your son on little biggy?

Weed won't harm anyone in my humble opinion, but hanging about with and being near gangs of wee scumbags? That'll sure do it

Please if what you say is true I'd be making sure I sorted my son myself. These county lines fuckers are bad news

So this is how we stop children. Now how do we stop the childish adults? 😂

I take offence at that 😝

Protect your cash from them little weed monsters

Whole site behind login and disable robots.txt so search engines can’t crawl. 2 quick and simple fixes to make this site much more secure and keep it under the radar! I’d happily help myself if the owners needed developers

I’m shit with remembering links, if I couldn’t google, I’d never find the site again.
No visible content without login is a good idea. Bit how do you stop a kid from registering? Can’t be anonymous and verify at the same time

thanks

Written by someone without teenage kids!

Wrong ;)

On wifi a teenager is as easily blocked as anyone if you control your router and don't share the password, just block the site in question and you are done.

Most of us hold the purse-strings on our kids mobile subscriptions, credit card use, and control the mailbox keys in their house. Any help with this stuff just ask.

If they can get through all of that you have something functionally equivalent to an adult on your hands.

We've gone beyond security now and the remaining options are surveillance and parenting. I'll leave this dirty work to you all :)

As I say,you don't have teenage offspring,do you? My 13 year old daughter can go through a Parental control faster than I can set them and yes, when it comes to tech,teenagers are little adults and have a far better understanding of tech than older age groups.

I sure do home slice, I'm not sure what you mean by parental controls but that's not what you should rely on.

Strong passwords and keys are not breakable by teenagers. Outside of Hogwarts that is.

the best way to reach a teenager is to message them in class

We'll see

You can use a mix of 3 browsers to get around parental controls put direct onto phones/laptops. Your best setting restrictions via the router with the IP log in

A VPN is an easy way around any router blocked sites. Most teenagers could figure that out in my opinion.

lol

It’s just that’s it’s illegal makes the whole thing seedy and shady, it’s absolute nonsense, ridiculously making it legal would actually make it harder for minors to get, but the powers that be are morons as we know. Unfortunately weed is the last thing you should be worried about in this modern world, as many have said ylu simply cannot stop them, but I also don’t think turning a blind eye is also right, kind of a don’t take the piss attitude is the one to take, only one I feel that works.

You can use a service such a nextDNS which is a DNS service that you can control and as such limit what sites any device hitting the DNS server can access.
I run it on my router at home and have two profiles one for adults and one for kids.
You can aslo set the DNS server on their mobile phone so they cant access this stuff even when at a mates house or on 4G.
Its not fool proof but its a good layer of defence.
Of course it doesnt help if their Mum is derranged and insists they have two mobile phones

If your router allows the DNS to be changed use Open DNS, link below. Make an account, you can block domains.

If the kid can change their PC DNS setting it won't work ..

Should be able to do it through Terminal or whatever the PC equivalent is.

Thanks but the kids got his machine password protected.