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Let's see every Internet safety class I went to for my son says I have to monitor his Internet usage and then report on it.

When he acts up or misbehaves I have to let him know what he did and use empathy and consequences and how he can correct it to grow up and become a responsible adult that has good behavior, good actions, and makes good decisions and has a good system of morals and ethics. This is also how Critical Thinking works.

But many disagree on how Child Psychology should work and Maddox says don't be a p*ssy beat your kids if she followed the Maddox method he wouldn't even sue her for slander.

The kid is a retard, slander is the spoken word, libel is the written word, I worked for lawyers for four and a half years so I know stuff like that.

If he was my son and did crap like that on Facebook, I'd take away his Internet privileges until he learns his lesson about responsibility and making good decisions instead of bad ones. That would be a consequence of his bad decisions and bad behavior on Facebook and the rest of the Internet. But I'd bet I'd still get sued as the ACLU will claim I violated his rights to troll people on Facebook, Kuro5hin, Slashdot, The Daily Kos, 4Chan, Blogger, Current, Digg, Reddit, etc.

if you set up a web filter, all they need do is use a search engine to find a way around it. You cannot block search engines as they can be used for educational purposes and some like Google have adult content words in them as well as a cache of the web page so students can get around the filter by using Google's cache.

The only thing you can do is teach the student to be responsible and use good judgment via critical thinking or love and logic and give them consequences for viewing material that is mature in nature, like taking away Internet privileges for a week or detention or whatever your school code of conduct says is a consequence for breaking the rules. Somehow they must learn to keep it educational.

When they graduate and work a job, if they don't learn that in high school, they will get fired at work for goofing off on the Internet and looking up non-work materials. You need to teach them responsibility as soon as you can, the sooner the better. Because you cannot control them, only they can control themselves by making good decisions instead of bad decisions.

Back on topic - Sonoma State University has an entire set of DVDs and pedagogy surrounding the teaching of critical thinking without involving the questioning of another person's religion. Critical thinking and believing in a God are not mutually exclusive - that would be illogical! It is comparing apples to oranges to think that a process of organizing thought and discourse can be applied to a metaphysical, ephemeral, ethereal concept and have veritas applied to it. Additionally, people on both sides of the issue have lots of time, money, emotion and various other vested interests to defend before being able to discuss it in a rational way - as this very post and the others below demonstrate (I never reply to these things, but it got me!). Stop on by http://www.criticalthinking.org/ to see the teaching of it in a masterful way.

Step 2: Check out the Foundation for Critical Thinking's online bookstore,
Step 3: Read books.
Step 4: ????
Step 5: Profit!!!!

I forgot the links.

Critical Thinking Web Site

Book on Critical Thinking

My introspective awareness [etc]

A researchers would formulate a hypothesis about how the mind worked, then he would sit down and think (and think and ...) about how his mind worked. Usually, the researcher would confirm his own hypothesis -- and contradict others introspection!

Humans -- The Self-Deceiving Animal! (Read up on psychology -- we humans tend to believe what suits us. This is well established.)

(Besides, there are theories that self conscience is an illusion. Read up on the subject. I haven't and can pick your argument to pieces...)