Lets examine and determine the following scene. You are planning a trip vacation in a few days. You have everything ready. Everything is packed and ready to go, and your full of exitment to enbark on the long awaited dream vacation. You leave your seventeen year old son Paul in command of the house for that week or so that your elsewhere. After all its just a week or so and you have left him enough funds for food and all other expenses he might need while you are away. You remind him that he is not to open the door to foreigners and that no one is to set foot in the house who are not other family members or friends he knows well. How safe is your seventeen year old son?
Risk or no risk
whilst you were carefully and skilfully deliberating the pros and cons, trying to reach a balance whether or not it would be a sufficient idea to leave Paul home alone, you forgot about the biggest hazard of all "your computer".
With a few clicks your child can access any website if you don't take measures as a parent to police certain 'bad sites'. What happens if you child lands on a mature website? Your child can view images that are damaging to his young psyche.
When we think about protecting our children we usually never think about that laptop sitting in our bedrooms perhaps. Or that computer you just bought Jennifer to do her school projects and research. But did you know your teenager is at risk if he or she is not monitored while they surf on the web?
Social media sites, chat rooms, explicit websites are a hazard to our children period. Anyone with any false ID can register and enter chat rooms, sign up for Facebook accounts. Whilst social media is considered a luxuriousness in the context of communication, it has also been well publicised for the cause of teenage rape, teenage suicide, self harming, child bullying and the list goes on and on.
Steps a Parent Must Take
As a parent the first step is to talk with your child of the dangers of surfing the information highway and of meeting and releasing information online or on chat rooms. It's a worthwhile idea to monitor your child when they surf the internet. Fins out what sites they visit and why. Always place the computer in a place visible by everyone. Such a place may be the living room. If your teenager tells you they want to use a Free Chat Rooms sites, make sure you read and find out if the chat rooms are moderated. Moderated chat rooms are a bit more risk free since the chat moderators kick out of the chat rooms anyone who is not supposed to be there.
It's important to watch over our children from both real life dangers also on the world wide web hazards. our own selves can help in keeping our children safe from both by conversing with them at a very early age of these hazards. After all, technology pushes us more and more to use the net.
Risk or no risk
whilst you were carefully and skilfully deliberating the pros and cons, trying to reach a balance whether or not it would be a sufficient idea to leave Paul home alone, you forgot about the biggest hazard of all "your computer".
With a few clicks your child can access any website if you don't take measures as a parent to police certain 'bad sites'. What happens if you child lands on a mature website? Your child can view images that are damaging to his young psyche.
When we think about protecting our children we usually never think about that laptop sitting in our bedrooms perhaps. Or that computer you just bought Jennifer to do her school projects and research. But did you know your teenager is at risk if he or she is not monitored while they surf on the web?
Social media sites, chat rooms, explicit websites are a hazard to our children period. Anyone with any false ID can register and enter chat rooms, sign up for Facebook accounts. Whilst social media is considered a luxuriousness in the context of communication, it has also been well publicised for the cause of teenage rape, teenage suicide, self harming, child bullying and the list goes on and on.
Steps a Parent Must Take
As a parent the first step is to talk with your child of the dangers of surfing the information highway and of meeting and releasing information online or on chat rooms. It's a worthwhile idea to monitor your child when they surf the internet. Fins out what sites they visit and why. Always place the computer in a place visible by everyone. Such a place may be the living room. If your teenager tells you they want to use a Free Chat Rooms sites, make sure you read and find out if the chat rooms are moderated. Moderated chat rooms are a bit more risk free since the chat moderators kick out of the chat rooms anyone who is not supposed to be there.
It's important to watch over our children from both real life dangers also on the world wide web hazards. our own selves can help in keeping our children safe from both by conversing with them at a very early age of these hazards. After all, technology pushes us more and more to use the net.
