Think that your child can see, right at this moment, sites that are not as harmless as this one.
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Use YouTube`s Safety Center if you notice any hateful content or any other teen safety issues on YouTube`s channels/videos.
And remember: Children under 13 years are not permitted to access YouTube. Also, teach your kid to think about the potential consequences when posting videos of himself or a friend. Once a video is online, you`ll never know who might see it.
Social networking sites teached us new meanings for words like `friends`. These sites can increase your circle of friends, but they also increase your exposure to people with less-friendly intentions.
Talk with your teen to think about keeping some control over the info they post. They should consider restricting the access to their personal info to a select group of people, like, real friends from school, sports team, or family.
If you missed it at The Oprah Winfrey Show, read Danielle`s worst nightmare, the tragic story about how social networking sites destroyed her and her daughter`s life.
Click HERE to read it!
Read also her advices on what every parent should know:
1. It can happen to anyone.
2. Learn the technology.
3. Don’t let your children be naïve.
“Talk to your children,” Danielle says. “Tell them about what happened to me and my child. That’s powerful.”
Educate your kids to:
• always use a nickname instead of real name;
• never give out personal information (name, address, age, telephone number, password, credit card number, and so on) in chat rooms and email
• always inform you if they receive any frightening or upsetting communication
• never exchange photographs over the Internet
• never agree to meet in real life with persons knowned in a chat room.
Allow access only to certain websites previously agreed together with your children. You can check with the children’s teachers for suggested Web sites and for recommendations for good resources online.
According to the children`s age, schedule computer / Internet use sessions and even set traffic limits.
This way you can stop them downloading non-licensed software or adult movies and control time spent on chat rooms.
Spend as much time as possible with your children on the computer / Internet.
Show them that you are interested about their online friends just like you know their real life friends, play together and let them show you what new things they have learned or the things they like. This way you will help them identify inappropriate communications.
