Caught 8 y/o watching porn

[loganfuckingroy]

I've accidentally caught my son watching pretty hardcore porn while I reached over where he was sitting on the sofa to pick up a cup next to him. He tried to draw his iPad up to his chest but I pulled it down and saw a video playing. It was Pornhub and extremely graphic hetero porn.

I took his iPad and started searching through his history and this has been going on for a week. His search history started with Googling "naked people" and then he's been watching several porn hub videos every day. He's autistic and loves watching Minecraft/Roblox/robotics videos with his headphones on so I don't suspect. It turns out his dad left his Google account logged in on my son's iPad after showing him something on YouTube and that's how he's been bypassing the content restrictions I've put in place on our Apple/icloud family settings.

We've chatted about it but he's very embarrassed and thinks he's going to be arrested. Husband has taken them to bed, iPad has been removed. I'm just completely at a loss. 8 is so young and he's not neurotypical.

Eh? He husband left his Google account logged in by mistake. He didn’t leave pornhub loaded up on the iPad!

OP@loganfuckingroy I just want to flag this helpful post up as I equally have heard stories about kids being exposed to adult content via Roblox….it’s worth going through every thing he is given access to .

OP said this DC had been accessing porn for a whole week on their iPad.

100%!

Not all children are the same as yours. Your children’s behaviour doesn’t represent all children everywhere.

I didn’t breathe a word of what happened with my son to anyone, but I posted anonymously on MN for advice. It’s not the sort of thing you talk to friends about, particularly not now society is so unhelpful and judgemental!

I'm a teacher. We teach the children how to use iPads and Google as research tool. they are capable of putting something into a search engine that they want to see. I've seen 6 year old boys type "willies" and "boobies" into Google. If Google had existed 50 years ago kids would have been doing the same.
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I think you're behind the times on this”

Somehowgirl

Your school doesn’t have controls in place that prevent young children searching those words? Why?

your school is remiss.

Agree completely.

This sort of shit is one reason people get PND.

Constantly told to ask for advice on parenting when we are unsure then get fucking shamed and put down when we do.
Can't win!

Mumsnet was surely invented for parents to HELP each other.

OP has asked for advice. OP has clearly not said here's what's happened and I think it was ok.

Fucking makes me sick it really does.

No, it doesn’t say it was the dad’s porn history. The dad left his Google account logged in, and the son searched naked people. Dad did not leave his prom history up! Well that isn’t what the OP says, so some people are just assuming he did. She never once said the dad was watching porn

Are there such controls that prevent children from typing certain words?
Not sure that exists.

What controls?

I mean we could chop their fingers off if you like

😂😂😂

Well that would stop them!

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Are there such controls that prevent children from typing certain words”

yes there are. It’s very basic.

@MrsSkylerWhite There's no control I know of that stops someone typing in a search term.

School restrictions will mean that results are not returned for anything that hits safety filters, but all search terms that are typed in are logged and can be viewed for safe-guarding purposes.

Thus how a teacher knows 'boobies' have been searched for (but results will not have been shown).

@Cluelessfirstimer

The OP posted in good faith. Unfortunately for her, she didn't reckon on some of the posters being completely fucking dimwitted.

Hopefully she can filter out the idiots.

It’s as if you’re reading and responding to a completely different thread as the rest of us. Can you show me where you read that the OP’s son was ‘searching for porn’ because I must have missed that bit.

For one reason or another, OP’s DS was curious and typed in ‘naked bodies.’ I’ve just done that in Google and the first things that come up are porn sites. Obviously if OP’s DH had remembered to log out of his Google account then this wouldn’t have happened.

I personally don’t think a child needs their own tablet but your responses aren’t even in line with what’s actually happened here

There are controls that stop the search engine, there is nothing to stop children typing bums and willies into the search bar.

Luckily teachers see this a lot and tend to be pragmatic about it.
Parents whose children are not like this tend to be horrified, whilst those of us with delightful curious beasts quickly learn from mistakes and learn to roll our eyes.

I think people may be thinking this because the boy was watching porn hub videos….is the suspicion that he might have clicked through that easily because of his dads internet search history?? I’ve never tried to access porn and so have no idea how easy it is these days for kids to find it but I know most of my feeds on social media are currently full of bike ads ,the trump trial and cat videos because of what my husband watches online!

The reading comprehension of most posters on here is SHOCKING

What did pop up on the search for "boobies" in a school, out of interest? I'd hope lots of interesting seabirds from the South Atlantic 😆

Do go on... explain to us all how you prevent some kids in a class of 33 from sneakily typing "penis" "bums" "naked ladies" and "poo head" into Google.

Good teaching and classroom management means it doesn't happen too often but yes, it does happen.

What are these magical controls that stop it happening?

I actually don’t think they’ve bothered to read OP’s posts at all tbh

It’s a sign of the times.
Why read thoroughly and form a rational opinion when you can do frothing in a split reactive second.

@FuckTheClubUp

I actually don’t think they’ve bothered to read OP’s posts at all tbh

I don't think she's reading any of the posts. I think during reading comprehension lessons in school she was busy typing "willies" into Google.

Please tell me what controls exist that stop you from typing words into a search engine? Please, I’d really like to know