Comments on: CSD Hosts Class to Help Parents Keep Kids Safe Online

By: sitting pugs

sitting pugs — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:28:21 +0000

I imagine that some youngsters would toss up words like “invasion of privacy” and “don’t you trust me” or “I’m not an idiot” or “I’m not like one of those kids.” I wonder if…as more parents become more in tune with, more knowledgeable about their children’s net-surfing habits, if the kids won’t revert back to old school forms of communication and expression.

A spiral bound notebook as a journal tucked away between the bookcase and the guitar case, perhaps? (written in code or deceptively simple English where true meanings are hidden in plain sight). Or, if a parent allows the child to have a laptop in the room as long as xyz criteria are met, the child could very well fill the machine not with hot-n-bothered-lingo, but with other equally disconcerting material, which the child might explain away as “research for a school project.”

Apologies for an imagination running away with me.

By: Unconcerned Citizen

Unconcerned Citizen — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:14:07 +0000

Ah, thanks for clearing that up!

By: Karass

Karass — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:43:22 +0000

A similar seminar was held one or two years ago and it was great. It had nothing to do with pedophiles and everything to do with what teens are really doing on the Internet right now. What I got out of it was that you should have free access to any social media to which your chiildren belong. Also made the point that clever teens can outwit any software or other technology meant to safeguard them. Safest intervention is to have the only online access be at home in the middle of a common area like the family room. No laptops in the bedroom. But be aware that school and friends’ computers will still be accessible.

The reason this is adult only is so that adults can feel free to ask dumb questions that they may not ask if kids are around, e.g. “What the heck IS My Space?” and “What does it mean if my child does Alt Tab on his laptop every time I come near?”

By: Unconcerned CItizen

Unconcerned CItizen — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:50:23 +0000

Oh boy, more scary propaganda about how the internet is full of pedophiles!

On a more serious note, making this an “adults-only” event seems like a bad idea. But I might be reading into it just a bit too much.