7 year old viewing porn

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DS1 aged 7 has been using my iPad for homework.Quick flick through history reveals he has seen some porn sites,first accessed by him searching for "Simpsons naked."Then obviously has seen other things and had a look at pornhub, fit chick teenage fuck and other similar.I am very shocked and don't know how to deal with this.I asked him what he had been doing with the iPad and he said he didn't want to tell me.When he realised I knew,he cried ,said he felt embarrassed and got upset.Quick chat about not looking at things unsuitable for children ,have obviously changed security and restricted iPad use and left it at that for now.What else should I do? We have never even had a facts of life discussion other than in biology/animals mating context.I think it was childhood curiosity initially but am worried about exposure at this age and whether I should talk more? Am also sad that I have let in happen by not being careful & supervising .Any advice?

He was probably looking for this:

McT123

You'd better be careful or someone will report you for posting explicit pictures of children.

I don't mean to sound too alarmist, but something else to bear in mind is that cartoon pornography depicting minors is illegal, so possessing pictures of 'underage' Simpson's characters is potentially an additional problem (obviously I don't imagine a 7 year old would get in any real trouble over it, but really important that he doesn't keep looking for that stuff)

Well, I'm an idiot as until I clicked on this thread I didn't know about safe search on Google. I'm able to dress myself each morning though, before you ask

Needless to say I've enabled it now.

What other filters do people have in place? I couldn't get on with the BT parental controls as I found it was blocking perfectly normal sites.

7 year olds are all curious.It is entirely normal, and I would make a point of telling your DS that, otherwise he is going to think of himself as some sort of shameful, sick weirdo

Peppermint, there is also a parental control on You Tube, alternately there is a KidsTube which can be downloaded instead of You Tube. This is quite important as most kids around 8yrs seem obsessed with watching Minecraft on You Tube and could get linked to other stuff on there.

There is also Kiddle, which is a google search engine for children.
www.kiddle.co/

I've just tried googling bum and it wouldn't give me any results! Strict :)

Thanks Buzzard

You are a mind reader, my 9 yo was watching minecraft stuff on YouTube about two weeks ago and he clicked on some 'real life ghost stories' video which gave him nightmares. We had a chat about that (and obviously have had these chats before), but once seen cannot be unseen etc. I'm off to deal with YouTube now!!

Jaysus, people can be really nasty on here.

OP, hope you come back and read the helpful stuff people have said

And for all those fear mongering pearl clutchers - my generation had access to the Internet and as far as I'm aware neither myself nor any of my friends are raging psychopaths because of it.

It's a shame he was exposed so young, but inevitable that he would find it eventually.

He may have heard something in passing. And Simpsons porn is a thing btw. Grim.

Thanks for all the helpful advice.The search history suggests it was just click click click through pages initially fuelled by childish curiosity which unexpectedly led somewhere else, not a specific search for porn itself.I was just anticipating the subject of porn coming up much later when he might actually be interested in girls and relationships which at 7 he clearly is not.It is a good time to start opening up a channel for discussion though and answering questions he may have.Thank you ,and I'll keep the safesearch on

It's not "inevitable" at 7...
Also OP check with you service provider to see if you can get porn blocked at source.

I came on too strong and I'm sorry. My point was that unchecked access to the internet could have led to so much worse. It's not the end of the world and you're dealing with it well.

Mammoth: Ant sex and bat sex? Lol

Its free and easy to protect your child from online dangers but articles such as www.mumsnet.com/internet-safety/preschool-children are misleading parents which results in people not understanding and our children are put at risk There's some good information here t.co/v1jvfUHtOC . Gives lots of good advice and best of all, its all free!

wow viper tastic today!

OP, I have not enabled safe search either, as I stupidly assumed that my DC were way to young for this sex malarkey, and to be interested in it

so don't beat yourself up, as you are not the only one to innocently assume that 7 is too young

and it looks like he didn't look for much anyway

onwards|!

Zombie thread

I don't understand those of you that seemingly feel qualified to judge the OP when you clearly have no idea how porn is found on the internet?

Of course her son wasn't looking for porn for fuck sake . He put in something which led him down the garden path to inappropriate content.

Internet pornography is disgusting and damaging, but it's also astonishingly easy to come by. If you're savvy enough, you can get past any filters in place (not saying a 7 year old would but a 13 year old might).

I think as someone upthread suggested, make sure you're open and available to talk about what he saw if he needs to. I'd have some prepared phrases to go with though so you don't get too flustered!

FFS!