Guerilla Parenting Mail Box – Teen boys, the internet and one fat ulcer
I’ve been inspired to create a new feature on Gadabout Media called Guerilla Parenting. I worked on this style of blog in a former blogging life and found it to be quite useful – we’ll call this feature The Guerilla Parenting Mail Box.
What will happen is readers, who don’t want to or can’t blog about their own family issues, can have an outlet to post, discuss and seek advice and support.
Sound fun? Entertaining? Reassuring? Enlightening? It should. Especially after you read the very first, inspirational story I’m about to share.
Feel free to chime in – this parent wants some help in coming up with an effective punishment.
I’ve recently discovered my teenage son (14) has been looking at porn on the internet. I found a file he tried to delete, but didn’t do a very good job of it. The file contained porn pictures and porn videos.
Aside from taking the computer away and not letting him have access to one at all, I’m not sure what else to do. I’m speechless, baffled and down right disgusted.
So – there you have if folks – the problem to solve and the crime to punish.
This is really a serious offense and one parent that could really use some advice.
Got any?
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Poor mom. I’m only dealing with a six year old, so I can’t claim to know what you’re going through, but if there’s any way in the world you can keep it calm and simple, I’d vote for that. Once upon a time, moms found skin mags stuck between their sons’ (and husbands’!) mattresses, tee shirts, etc.
If you can sort out why pornography is upsetting to you, you can speak to him on that level. Are you afraid it will teach him to objectify women? Is the porn he’s looking at of a violent or ‘kinky’ nature? Because at its most simple, and most surface, a teenager looking at ‘dirty pictures’ is pretty normal. From what my guy friends tell me, the male of the species is sort of like that dog in the movie “Up”… only men aren’t constantly thinking about squirrels.
If there’s anything to be thankful for, it’s that he’s just a normal boy.
Go ahead and outlaw porn for very clear reasons, but not because sex is ‘bad’, and I would definitely ban it on computers for a very practical reason–you don’t know what kind of nasty (computer virus) infection it might drag home.