{"id":412,"date":"2010-03-28T08:57:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T07:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomjottings.co.uk\/wpress\/?p=412"},"modified":"2014-02-12T10:13:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T10:13:59","slug":"electric-babysitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"Electric Babysitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Express leads today with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyexpress.co.uk\/posts\/view\/165643\">FAMILIES HIT BY BBC &#8216;FILTH&#8217; <\/a>warning that children as young as five can access sex and violence through internet services such as iPlayer.<\/p>\n<p>The article goes on to demand that children should be protected. Personally, I think that they are targetting the wrong people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Children should be protected from post-watershed content, but it is the role of their parents to supervise and control what their children view. Just like the TV before it, computers shouldn&#8217;t be used as electric babysitters, keeping the kids quiet so that the adults can ignore them.<\/p>\n<p>Shockingly, 3% of children between the ages of five and seven have a internet connected computer in their bedrooms, no doubt to go with their TV, DVD-player and shelf full of video nasties!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/randomjottings.c2772449.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/baby-on-laptop-e12699363701371.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-414\" title=\"baby-on-laptop\" src=\"http:\/\/randomjottings.c2772449.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/baby-on-laptop-e12699363701371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>These people would probably be the first to complain that they can&#8217;t let their children play out for fear of them getting abducted, yet they are more than happy to leave them to roam the occasionally seedy world of the web without a second thought.<\/p>\n<p>Any responsible parent makes sure that the PC is in a visible place where they can cast a weather eye on what their child is doing until such an age that they can be trusted to be cautious and at least semi-responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Why do we allow these feckless parents to dodge their duties whilst insisting that everyone else should pick up the slack?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Express leads today with FAMILIES HIT BY BBC &#8216;FILTH&#8217; warning that children as young as five can access sex and violence through internet services such as iPlayer. The article goes on to demand that children should be protected. Personally, I think that they are targetting the wrong people&#8230; Children should be protected from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}