On Tue, Sep 09, 2008, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about "Re: parental control -
outbound firewall?":
> Hi Gabor,
>
> Filtering everything? what if your kids using Google to search for
> things? Google will send them to web sites that you closed due to
> too-much restriction? do you really want your kids to call you to add
> sites so they can read what they were looking for?
I guess this really depends on your children's age. If your child is
5, you'd probably really want him or her to just use a couple of specific
sites that you authorize. Google will not make sense anyway (a child of
that age usually cannot even read or write). If your child is 12, you
made a good point - the child is very likely to Google his favorite singer
of whom you never heard, or go to a children site of whom you never heard -
all this while you expected him to go to slashdot or linux.org ;-)
At some point have no alternative but to let go - you have no hope to
understand everything that your 16-year-old (or whatever) children understand.
The Lebanese-American author Khalil Gibran put it very beautifully: [1]
"Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."
Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet" (1923), Chapter 4 ("Children")
[1] http://leb.net/~mira/works/prophet/prophet4.html
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