Edit: Im aware of the typos in the title, sorry!
Some of you may remember my previous thread where I talked about how my 13 year old brother was an absolute menace and how my parents really didn't care
TL;DR of that post is basically how I moved back in with my old parents after a messy divorce with my own daughter, and my 13-year-old brother, who I never really had a relationship with, turned out to be a misogynist and racist. He followed all your typical Andrew Tate types, and his parents didn't do much to correct his behavior and school as a 'boys will be boys' attitude.
I started dragging him with me to my mom and daughter dates and as much as he rolled his eyes at me, I could definitely see another side of him coming out. I started looking at the content he was looking at on his phone, started curating it, setting limits on his phone use - and to my surprise he was...receptive? Its almost as if he knew all of it was bad for him in the first place. But he was super protective of his phone. Which i eventually got into.
What I did find was horrific. TW.
Gore, porn, 4chan, a lot of discord channels with a lot of older people. No fucking wonder he was the way he was., and so much more I do not want to get into. These were videos saved on his phone!! How in the goddamn hell was all of this available to a freakin 13-year-old. How. Literally just how. Is it THAT easily accessible these days?
I am seriously considering not letting my child on the internet until they're 15-16. Even the Surgeon General said something to that effect. I apologize for being all over the place. I just wanted to rant and give an update here.
How are you guys handling letting your kids access the internet?