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Online Strategies for Parents
Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 10:14 AM by Jason Barker
CNet has a special article listing strategies parents can employ for, as the article is entitled, "Developing safe and smart Internet citizens." The strategies are developed according to age group. For example, concerning teens ages 13-15, the article states:
At this age, parents should assume their kids are interacting online--using IM, e-mail, text messaging--on a PC at home, at school, or at a friend's house. This is the age when online and, possibly, offline encounters with strangers are the biggest problem; kids in this age group admit to meeting strangers offline and typically don't consider such behavior a risk. Cyberbullying also changes to sexual harassment at this age, according to Aftab.
She advises that parents work on developing their child's "filter between the ears."
The article then goes on to give specific guidelines for handling Internet activity for members of this age group. The same is done for other age groups through age 16 and above.
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