I personally enjoy having younger members on the board. I like Anonymous User and Qin Shi Huangdi.
If you’re already letting your daughter read and respond-by-proxy to PIT threads, I say go for it.
That being said, I was personally responsible for the “Favorite Orifice” thread and I can’t promise I will keep my threads PG-13 rated. I also posted a thread about how long it would take to fill a backyard swimming pool with cum if you could magically collect all naturally occuring human ejaculate across the world.
Yeah, that kind of thread is what I mean. I have a pretty open relationship with my daughter, but not so open that I want to be like, “So what did you think about that thread about filling a swimming pool with semen? And what’s with your favorite orifice being the urethra?” I don’t really care if we have teens here, but MY teen being here while I also am? Boundaries.
I am reading this thread with great interest, since the Princess has lately taken to visiting this board. I monitor the threads she reads, however. She wants to join when she turns 13 and already has a username picked out and everything.
Is there a reason you can’t just answer the question instead of casting aspersions on his daughter’s character or whether or not her father thinks she’s speshul? The only one here acting like a bratty 13 year old that no one cares what they say is you.
Had you asked me this 5 years ago, I would have said, “Absolutely not!”, but I saw my 13 year old grandson playing Grand Theft Auto over the holidays (with his father’s permission) and said to myself, “What the hell. I’m sure he’s heard worse on the playground.”
Our grandson is very intelligent and his church activities have helped his social skills where his parents have been lacking.
He knows how to sift through the expletives and would have no problems here.
I don’t care about expletives (I let/force my kid listen to vulgar music all the time [feel free to walk if you don’t like what I listen to in the car 100% of which is profane]) but pan-fried semen? Paper towel tubes? I would never even tell my kid this place exists. I’d die if she read some of the things I’ve written here.
I vote yes. I wish something like this had been around when I was 13. I bet access to information is the biggest differentiator in what can become of a life. Yes, there are obnoxious and gratuitously obscene posts from time to time here (especially this thread for some weird reason). But learning to dismiss them on a screen is probably easier than learning to dismiss them in person, and good practice.
I don’t mind having 13 year olds read what I post. I don’t think I know the ages of people posting here, anyway. It is hard to imagine we have any kind of control beyond knowing what our experiences have been so far.
I was going to suggest she lurk first; that goes for posters of all ages. But it sounds like she already does. Other than that, meh. If she acts the fool she’ll get banned. Seriously, what’s the harm? Mean people on the internet? That can be educational. Discussions of bizarre sex acts? So can that, so long as you’re willing to talk about it and clear up any misconceptions.
I’m curious as to why the conversation is even taking place. Does the SDMB require parental consent for minors to use it? The only discussions I had with my parents about using the internet at that age were when financial transactions were involved; this was before AOL went unlimited, and later I asked for a subscription to Gemstone III.