It Happened To Me: My Son Looked At Porn On My Dad's Computer

When the image popped up in my dad's search history, there was no avoiding “the talk.”

I'm not sharing photos of myself or my son for privacy purposes, but here are two capybaras we petted during a visit to a local farm. My son decided he couldn't wait to use the restroom on the other side of the property and peed just outside the capybara house as I was taking this photo. I caught him just as he was stuffing his mini-me back into his sweatpants.

By Maisie Archer

It took one glance for me to realize that it was going to be difficult for me to watch my daughter’s favorite Disney film ever again.

When my dad handed his laptop to me a moment earlier, he left the room, and I was alone, staring at a drawing of two characters from the movie. One was doing something to the other that never should have been imagined, never mind drawn.

I had to admit it looked like it came direct from the studio; the art was that good, but why oh why was it depicting such a scene? My dad cleared his throat from the hallway and I scrambled to delete the history on his computer. He had been looking for a website he found earlier that week that had to do with a car safety seat my mom wanted for their dog, but this had popped up at the top of the history list.

The day before, my children and I had spent the afternoon with my parents, and my son, who was fourteen, had asked to use my dad’s computer to play a game. How in the world did he end up looking at a website like that?

I couldn’t look my dad in the eye