| Parental Peace of Mind | | The advent of the Internet, in some respects, made the job of parenting a little harder. We want our children to experience the vast wealth of knowledge available on the Internet and communicate with their friends online (frees up the telephone). ... | |
| | Girl Scout Survey: Sexual Harassment of Teens on Net | | @@@@@@@@@@ANY Tips for Parents.@@@@@@@Girls Scouts of the USA has gathered some data on internet-based harassment of teenage girls. The organization released a study in mid-February? The Net Effect: Girls and New Media? that surveyed 1,000 U.S.... | |
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| Teaching Internet safety to children... | | Last night I tried explaining the dangers of the internet to my five year old. I explained to him that people you meet online are strangers and that you never know really who they are as they could just be pretending. I think he grasped it in the... | |
| | Running away for love | | I can't imagine how this girls friends could not have alerted her parents or someone as to what was going on.I can't imagine that the man who she went with conned her into believing that he was 20 years old. Even if he was 20 years old, he could... | |
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| How do I talk to her about this? | | I have a daughter who is soon to be thirteen. She tests the waters but is an overall good kid. She asked me last week if she could start an account on a site called MyPraize, it's kind of a myspace for younger kids and it's Christian based. (She's... | |
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| the dangers of the internet | | how many times do we warn our kids about making friends on the internet with strangers? i know i have warned my kids a kazillion times times about people who make out to be someone they are not, and yeah they come across as cool and nice and... | |
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