Adam, Go for it!
I went through this with one of the first fully-wired-for-internet families in Melbourne, and though I’m now a grandfather and not personally in need of it, support the concept. With my own three sons, my strategy was to wire internet to their rooms (wireless now isn’t location-sensitive of course) and I believe that was a mistake. Children should have a location in the house where they can do homework research in a public place, not in private. I’m not sure how a “filter box” can achieve that. I built a comprehensive monitoring firewall with web filtering, on an old PC running OpenBSD. I showed the boys the logs that are collected, and told them that I can check any time I like, so they need to exercise good behaviour. As a result of this, I almost never *needed* to check the logs, and over more than a decade, only had to gently chide one of them twice. That is, the boys were given a lot of freedom, but learned that nothing is truly private. I believe that was an effective strategy for Real Life(tm). You can speed, but eventually you’ll get caught. However, the lure of web comics and other innocent time-wasters was too much, and I think their studies were badly affected. I can’t really complain; one has an excellent single and two have double degrees in STEM fields, and all have good jobs, relationships and further career prospects. But in general, their teenage years had too much downtime looking at a screen. I hope that is some help to you in your endeavours, and perhaps to others here who are embarking on the most challenging startup of all: fledging great children. Clifford Heath. > On 19 Mar 2015, at 6:08 pm, Adam Mills <a...@chambills.com> wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > For those of you I haven't met at drinks, I am one of the founders of > www.koalasafe.com (startmate #15). > We make parental controls in a box (time limits, content filtering + safe > search, and parental analytics - across all devices in the home) > > We have launched today on Kickstarter, raising $98k hence the series K ;) ! > If you are a parent or care about how kids use the Internet we'd love you to > back us. > > Please share this link on Facebook and Twitter > http://koalasafe.com/kickstarter > > Thanks > Adam > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more > > Forum rules > 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. > 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs > > > To post to this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Silicon Beach Australia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
