>Your sister accidentally clicking on a porn site is not the end of the world. Being a girl, (or at least a 9-year-old girl) she’ll hopefully just get disgusted and try to close the page.
Maybe not quite so simple as that. I think that’s the view of a worldly-wise person who’s forgotten what it’s like to be an innocent. A child who has been properly parented and protected and not exposed to things for which she’s too immature could be horribly, horribly shocked.
At age eight my appropriately naive son and his friend found a page of a pornographic newspaper blowing down the street. It contained an image of a woman in a pose that shocked and frightened him so much that it was months before he could even talk about it, during which time it was obvious that he was troubled but I coudn’t find out why. Seeing a woman depicted that way was deeply disturbing to him, and there was nothing that could be done to erase the image. The best that I could think to do was to say that when you love someone, the sight of the person’s body is beautiful to you, but that anything can be made to look ugly, especially to someone who doesn’t understand it. I never knew if it helped at all. I do believe the experience left a mark that affected him for a long time.
I commend AlenaD for her concern and hope she finds the answer. When NetNanny was installed at my house, the children outsmarted it in minutes.