I find many questions on here that childern have written, giving out thier email address and asking questions about sex. I think this is inviting trouble.
What are your opinions on this and what do you teach your childern re: the dangers of the internet?
Don't most parents warn them and isnt this taught in the school system?
I find that giving the address out is a dangerous pratice.
I am over reacting ?
2006-06-11 12:32:17 · 7 answers · asked by cheeky chic 379 6 in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
I am not trying to get help for my self? I am just asking opinions and hoping that parents will read them. They are all good so far, by the way.
2006-06-11 14:23:01 · update #1
It is so scary to see children so trusting on line. They have no clue anyone and everyone can be behind the keyboards. Parents are not aware that they use computer as baby sitting tools. Many are ignorant about the technology. Going online is like inviting strangers to one home 7/24. There's not enough education focus on internet use by children. Children need to learn internet security. When using msn chat, yahoo chat or icq chat, children need to be taught only accept those friends that they know and refuse strangers invitation!! Never allow children to use webcam! Just these yahoo question and answer site you can see a lot of naive children got deceive by perverts.....frocing them doing things that they do not feel comfortable. They need to know online might be instance but any relationship created is not real.....anyone and everyone can type beautiful words, seductive phrase....behind th computer. The only thing we can do here as an adult is to deter those perverts and advise children in danger of exposing themselves to strangers here.....and keep repeating the same message until it hits home!!
2006-06-11 15:05:40 · answer #1 · answered by sstooc2001 6 · 7⤊ 2⤋
NO you are certainly not over reacting..many parents do not watch what their young kids are doing on the Internet,It is wrong and unsafe to give out your full name, your home number, your address. Kids do not have a clue who they are emailing or chatting with. The worst yet if they make plans to meet them in person. Parents should warn their kids and tell them of the dangers and restrict their computer activities if they find they have been warned and still chatting with an unknown person that is wanting to meet them. They should install a key logger on the computer to keep up and track their children's activities and have it sent to the email of the parents. It could save a lot of trouble your child could be approaching. The parents should tell their kids they love them and want them to be safe. I am not sure about schools but I do think many of them do instruct kids about the safety of the internet. Hope this was some help.
2006-06-11 19:44:32 · answer #2 · answered by Marissa H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Considering all the crap that is available on the Internet with all of the direct and indirect social concequences, parents should do their best to be very aware of what their children are doing while online, but it all boils down to realtionships with your children. If you don't make your family a top priority, you can't effectively teach what needs to be taught. They will resist your efforts to teach them anything.
Having said that.... this is what I would consider the most important things about computer usage:
*Never allow the Internet to be hooked up in a non-public room in the house. Its far too tempting, even for many adults to engage in activities or be on sites that they wouldn't be on if someone were watching.
*Don't give out information that is specific- address, name of school, team, city, names of friends, etc. Go into detail on this with your children.... write it down if you have to. Explain to them that people can put clues together like a puzzle to find out where they live and what they do.
*Don't give your e-mail to anyone that you do not know and haven't met in person, unless parents have given permission.
*Parents... be very blunt with your children as to what the consequences are if they fail to follow family rules, and then make sure you stick with them.
*I don't think chatting in chat rooms is ever a good idea for young kids, especially, but probably for all children. If they want to chat with their best buddies, that's one thing, but talking to complete strangers when they are still so naive can be just asking for trouble. If you want to allow this.... insist on sitting in with them during these conversations. Start YOUNG with teaching kids computer skills, and make sure you know at least as much as they do. If your child already knows how to delete the History on the web browser, and you are saying, "Huh.... History? Web browser?" then you could have a problem.
Hope that helps a bit.
2006-06-11 20:01:25 · answer #3 · answered by wibbie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I sat both my children down and had them watch dateline, when they did the show about sexual preditors over internet...I talked to them..But the thing I do is when I am at work I unhook one cable line to the computer and when I come home I hook it back up and when one of my children is on the computer in the family room, I am always there....My children are 11 and 8..
2006-06-11 19:53:42 · answer #4 · answered by tweeterbird73 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put the children's computer in a place where you can see the monitor screen clearly. That way you and others can see where your children is at in the internet. If it's in their rooms, you won't know where they visiting.
2006-06-12 05:51:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Explain the rules that you what them to follow on net. Get net nanny to make sure they are following the rules.
2006-06-11 19:36:15 · answer #6 · answered by nay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use the software found here and it works great for my 2 young children.
www.kid-surf.com
2006-06-12 21:24:48 · answer #7 · answered by BillD 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋