Character Enhancement

Well, the first day of some restriction at the computer was not too bad...partly because the girls had other activities in the afternoon. After supper, when I took the 2 younger ones to the YMCA for swim lesssons, Lydia was playing a little bit on a site that is O.K. However, the restriction box pops up alot during it (because of all the advertising) and she got frustrated. When I got home she was not happy about it. She was even having problems with facebook and the flair page. Anyway, I got that smoothed over. then later she was doing research for homework and it was restricting sites again and she was MAD. I turned off the program so she could just do homework. When I came back later she was doing something else and not homework. So I had her turn it off. Some of her issues have to do with a friend from church that has unlimited access to the computer (as far as I know) and when she goes over there they play alot on it. I really feel that time should be limited with it and that other activities should be going on. She just gets locked in to playing on it and kinda zones out.
All in all, I glad that we are doing this for now....I think that it will teach some self-control and maybe patience too!!!

restrictions

Well, we love having the internet at the house although the children would love to have other computers with connections so that they wouldn't have to share!!! We are going to stick to our guns and just have 1 home computer plugged-in to the internet connections. This last weekend, however, we encountered our first attack of some sort of virus or malware. It was VERY frustrating and I was annoyed with the tactic used to get us to click on the box (said it was a virus scan or something). Anyway, we called Jeff and he got us on a good malware program and we found 9 of those stinkin' bugs!!! ARGH!!! So, after that got cleaned up I set about using the free filtering program and will hope to control what sites are being visited and what items actually show up on web pages. It is a little frustrating now but hopefully our list of approved sites will get built up and the kids will be back to using the computer with ease. Elias wanted to add You Tube as an approved site but I said that I wanted to keep that under parental control because there is stuff there that shouldn't be visited (in our opinion). So for now....that particular site will only be allowed when we (the parents) know about it!