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just reminded me about cell phones there...
one of ours has one, a trac phone he bought and pays for. the other isn't responsible and was using his to talk to people he wasn't allowed to by the county, so we sent it home and he uses our cell. we don't have a house phone, so we can check the cell bill and see who he's calling. he dosen't use it much.
we keep the laptop in the living room. i check the history and cookies often. the one got caught looking at porn when his buddies were over, got confronted and restricted for awhile but now i trust him (although i still check what he looks at). the other was warned we will check, looked at questionable stuff, was warned again, then i found he had looked at straight up blatant porn. he will probably never use the internet again here, because i specifically showed him how i will check and he had bad judgement to try anyway. internet is not a right, its a privledge.
i check what their myspace pages have on them, who the friends are and their pages. if they have questionable 'friends' i call them on it. we have little kids on the computer here too, and i don't allow any trash. i got rid of the myspace instant messaging cause the one was again talking to ppl he wasn't supposed to.
ours aren't really allowed out of our sight per the agency if they're therapeutic. one is going to go off of it soon to just reg. care, but hasn't earned trust or privledges so he's going to be treated the same.
good luck!
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