Since June is internet safety month, I will be posting relevant articles that I find throughout the month.
Monitoring kids online: Parents are better safety check than software
By Tom Abate , Scripps Howard
Eagle-Tribune
Neil Rubenking, lead software analyst for PC Magazine, shared his personal strategy for exercising parental control over how his two children surf the World Wide Web:
"I'm sitting in my home office and through the door, I can see my kids," he said, adding that putting computers in common rooms, rather than bedrooms, is one low-tech way he has chosen to protect his 11- and 14-year-olds from either straying into or seeking out the seamy side of cyberspace.
More:
http://www.eagletribune.com/pulife/local_story_168115658
Internet Safety Month, Part 8: Social Networking Safety
Adam Thierer
This month, I have been posting a series of essays about how parents can deal with potentially objectionable online content or contacts to coincide with “
National Internet Safety Month.” (Here are parts
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6, and
7). In this series, I have been talking about how parents need to adopt a “layered” approach to online child protection that involves many tools and strategies. And such an approach is certainly needed to address social networking activities.
More:
http://www.techliberation.com/archives/042481.php
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