Parents Talk: How Do You Handle an X-Rated Internet Search?

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Today's topic: How do you handle an x-rated Internet search from one of your kids? 

For all the great the Internet can offer—learning modules, social interaction, up-to-the-minute news sites like Bolingbrook Patch (we had to plug ourselves, right?), there are many sites that would not pass the standard eye test of a given parent. 

From Huffington Post Parents: 

Raising kids in today's technology-saturated times presents unprecedented challenges. One of the risks that parents face is that even with precautions, it's difficult to ensure that our children will not be exposed to highly inappropriate images and videos.

Some parents dismiss the impact on their children of stumbling upon pornographic sites, suggesting that it's as harmless as discovering daddy's Playboy under the bed when they were young.

But when a child comes across extremely graphic images or videos online, it can be both stimulating and upsetting. It's one thing to see a picture of a naked woman in a magazine, and something else altogether to view some of the sexual videos-often replete with demeaning and degrading dialogue that are on the web.

Kids are naturally curious about sex and want to find out more about it, but as parents, we want their exposure to be gentle, gradual and developmentally appropriate.

So we ask you, the parents: How would you (or how do you) handle an x-rated Internet search?

Share your thoughts in the comment section below!