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Originally Posted by IluvToRead
I'm really looking forward to the upgrade. I've also got a few teenagers who I'd like to give KVs to. They had a turn with an android tablet, and then got a bit "damaged" by watching weird youtube videos.
Just books. I think that's a good idea.
Oh, and I'll be the one controlling what books they read. I know there's alot of "not for kids" books on Amazon.
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There's a lot of not-for-kids books at the local library too.
If a kid really wants to read that kind of stuff, you cannot stop them. There are too many ways.
Nothing wrong with taking a healthy interest in what your kids get up to. But, a good approach is to teach them not to want to read those types of books, not censoring everything that comes into the house.
Just speaking from personal experience,
I am not too far off from those days myself.
And I know a few people whose families and schools are heavy-handed, ban the internet types (the ultra-religious are, sometimes,
really fun) -- typically the reaction to
that 
is they go buy a
cheap android smartphone and do whatever they want. Rinse and repeat when it gets discovered and confiscated.
WiFi is everywhere, of course.
Encourage all those wonderful books you know of which happen to be clean, don't dwell on all the things they might read instead.