My 15 year old daughters reaction to "Laptop dad"

[marlakay]

203. Things are so much harder now

When my daughter was 16 we shared one desktop, this was 1996 so no cells, no tablets, etc at least if you aren't rich.

I kept it in the living room of our two bedroom apt, i was single mom, she had to be off by 11pm for the night. I caught her a few times beyond that and warned her.

Then one night i woke up at 1am and she was still on ICQ chat and her name was sexy lady. I said who would you talk to that late?? And I was freaked at the name she choose…

She was a good student, didn't party but I think the internet is a place kids think they can let out another side of them, they don't see the risk they are taking.

What I did since I worked full time and she was alone after school was I turned the internet off for a whole year. It scared me something would happen to her.

Now she's 30 and a great mom herself to 2 little boys.