What message should I give my son about this? I told him that porn is not real, loving sex (he knows the facts of life) and he should not look at these things until he is 18.Īnswer: With the widespread use of smartphones children are now witnessing pornography and violent material at younger and younger ages.
My son was hysterical when I told him I might have to do this. I don't know whether to raise it with their parents. I am a bit shocked by it all, as they are so young. When I asked him about it he was mortified – it seems some of his classmates were looking at porn and showing it to others at a party. Last week I got an alert on the software that he was looking up 'sex ' and 'porn ' and it makes me worried. He has supervised access to a computer at home where he plays games and watches You Tube and we have parent monitoring software on it. It seems a lot of his schoolmates and friends have phones already and that is where the pressure is coming from. He has been asking us for a smartphone and we have said no, at least not until he has started secondary school next September.
Question: My 12-year-old son has always been a well-behaved mannerly boy.
