‘I put a password on the laptop before they end up on Only Fans’

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Sure there is sometimes a fuss about screens, but most mothers are secretly overjoyed that these things exist. However, sometimes things go wrong. This is also the case with Rabia (40), mother of Hanne (10) and Flora (6).

“Hanne played at our house with a friend, while I went shopping with my youngest. “Not on the laptop!” I shouted quickly as I closed the door behind me. The family laptop is for general use, including by the kids, but periodically and only when my boyfriend or I are around. “Yeah,” came a bored voice from the living room, where the girls were tinkering sweetly with beads.

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I hadn’t been gone for 45 minutes and when I got home, I peeked in through the kitchen window to see what my daughter was doing. It was no surprise, she and her friend were sitting with her nose almost in the laptop screen.

I felt a diatribe coming on, but swallowed it just in time when they enthusiastically gave me a lecture on dolphins, complete with PowerPoint presentation that they had briefly twisted together. I couldn’t really get mad about this, could I? It was only in the evening that I saw in the search history that they had also surfed by TikTok. Task for me: put a password on the laptop, before they end up on Only Fans.”

This article can be found in Kek Mama 07-2022.

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