Comment Re:Holy shit (Score 1) 618
No, you're an oxymoron! Haha that one never gets old.
But seriously, you're still going on about the locked room. I specifically said it didn't need to be a locked room. The parent post didn't say it needed to be locked - just a "computer room". A corner of a living room.
Ultimately you just have to trust your children to use the computer under your rules, and thereby use your parenting powers to enforce using the computers in communal areas.
After all, if - as you suggest - a child is determined enough to get onto facebook after hours that they'll learn how to pick a lock and then stay awake until everyone has gone to bed and fallen asleep, before creeping down and breaking into the computer room, I'm pretty sure they'll be determined enough to figure out a way around your DNS settings.
Ultimately you can't keep control over your children forever, and at some point you just have to trust that you have trained them well and let go of the bike and see if they fall over. Take sensible precautions; while they get used to the internet on their own computers, make sure they're somewhere you can keep an eye on them - not spy on their every move, just make sure they're not stripping off on their webcam for a 54 year old man in his underwear.
Technology is not a replacement for parenting.