Your Kids Privacy At The Expense Of Their Safety-No Way
To all moms and dads with teens or pre-teens, I want to give you a heads up about what your kids really mean when they, angrily, tell you that they want their privacy, or that such and such is none of your business.
Keep in mind, if they were all that concerned with privacy they would not have their entire life plastered all over their My Space or Facebook pages for all their friends, and all the world to see. (To learn more about social networking sites, what they are and the dangers they pose, follow this link.)
Privacy is just a diversion, a code word, to draw your attention away from the real issue. So, what do they really mean by privacy? They only want privacy from you, mom and dad, which translates to Secrecy. Fact of life: secrecy + kids/teens = TROUBLE (and not just with a capital T).
As a parent, I know you are always concerned about whether your older kids are falling in with the wrong crowd; experimenting with drugs or alcohol; being exposed to Internet porn, predators, or the many other Internet dangers. You have been protecting them all their lives, however, kids are still kids, basically, accidents looking for a place to happen. You have the responsibility to know what they are doing, both in the real world and in the virtual world of the Internet.
I urge you to be the parent. It is in your job discription to make the hard decisions. Your kids may know more about computers and the Internet, but you know more about life, and it is up to you to keep them safe while teaching them about life.
Safety should never be negotiable when it comes to your kids.
Being your child’s friend is not in that job description. However, your kids will want to be your friend when they are adults and have come to understand the sacrifices you made by making the hard choices when they were young.
Now it is time to make one of those hard decisions. I want you to read a previous post: Internet Filters and Monitors: How Do They Differ And Which One Is Right For Your Family?, and then install monitoring software on your teens computers. You must know what they are doing on the Internet. Isn’t parenting fun?
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This web site has one purpose, to assist parents in protecting their children from the myriad of Internet dangers. Be sure to review the other Internet Safety pages found in the top navigation bar, and read some of the other posts.
Consider ordering the Kid Safe Cyberspace booklet and get a jump start on protecting your children from Internet porn, cyber bullying, predators, sexting, identity theft, drugs, and all the rest of the garbage found in the Internet landfill.
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Take courage, my friend.
***Be a friend to your friends with kids and share this web site with them. Buy them a booklet too. You may prevent the heartbreak that is inevitable if Internet porn or other online dangers win the day.***
Filed Under: Internet Safety
this is proably the most stupid thing i’ve read for school like serious you should be able to trust your kids, you’re basically stalking them yourselves.