At what age do you let your kids go on the internet?

maybe the write time is 12 up, but you must be beside her. to she will not open another explorer that not good for the kids. you can let them open with barbie site or barney but you must give her time if how many hour a day.

yeah i let my kids touch and explore internet in my supervision.. i let them play or read stories from internet

Internet is beneficial to children yet dangerous too. They might accidentally got into sites with adult contents. I am afraid that my nephew would discover that with the internet. I never let him use the internet without me to supervise him for his own protection.

Personally, I think 5 years old is too young. I started using the internet when I was 13 years old (ten years ago). I think that's the ideal age. =D There are too many negative things on the internet. All parents should be around when their child (below 14 or below 18) is online. It's good to know what kind of sites they are surfing or who they are chatting with.

i think it's so difficult now to tell at what age a child can go to the net because in the school they start learning about it very early and we can stop learning a child what they learned in the school and every parents want is child now somethings before learning it in school

I would say 12 or 13 would be an ideal age .

I have a daughter that was 3 years old when she started going online. But she knew what to go on. she only went on pbs. and I thought that was great. She learned alot from it.So I think is't ok at any age as long as you what they are getting on or have the block on it.

My daughter came home from school when she was 3 with a paper for me to sign for permission to go online at school. I was shocked cause I didn't think they let the kids go online in Head Start or preschool. After I got my 1st puter when she was 4, I would let her 'chat' to a couple of my friends' in yahoo mess. They had fun typing back and forth to her even thou it was just gibberish. Now she is 9, she has her own yahoo id and I utilize yahoo's parental controls to the max so she can't go to any site not appropiate for her age. She is allowed to talk to 3 of my friends online and that's it. I added their ids to her yahoo mess. and she chats to them whenever they are online. She does like to go into pogo and parental controls won't let her even after I added it to her list of websites she is allowed to use. Sooooooooo she sometimes will bring up pogo if I walk away for a while, head to the teens' rooms and shuts off chat so noone bothers her. She understands that there are ppl online that want to do her harm so won't chat anywhere but in mess. with my 3 select friends..oh and my niece. She knows if she messes up just once online, she won't be allowed till her next b-day so she listens to me in that prespective. Now if I can get her to listen to me other times. -rolls eyes-

Now with computers in the schools and all, Kids start using them really really young. I think the most important thing as a parent is to moniter them and set limits.

I let my 5 year old play games online from the Disney Channel, PBS, Nickelodean, etc. However, this is always with my supervision- meaning me right in the same room with her if not in a chair next to her. I don't have an older child, so I don't know the right answer to this question. I would probably let a 13 year old or so on to chat with friends, but ONLY to friends that I know and like. Kids cannot understand or do not take seriously the dangers of talking to strangers on the internet. They need to be protected, even if they think we as parents are nerds.

My kids need to be online to do research for their school projects. My kids are now 11 and 10 years old. I've let them start online research when they were 9 and 8 years old. I believe they should be allowed to go online as early as their their school projects require.

My daughter is 9 and though we have the internet I only allow her to use it when she goes to the library. That way I know that she is protected from things I do not want her to see. Plus, it makes it more of a special treat for her. I do not want her to become one of those kids who just sit around online all day not doing anything. At least this way if she wants to use the 'net she has to take a WALK to it.

i would say 14 wil be ideal age for them

i never allow to my kid in internet i will tell them, whenever yu need , that time i will tell yu.. after 16 yers only i will allow, then i will kep the time limits also..