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How can we best teach our kids to be streetwise and safe when they’re online?

Messaging, social networking and other internet services offer children and young people fantastic opportunities to express themselves, be creative and develop new skills. But kids can sometimes share too much information about themselves in order to be ‘cool’ online and people they communicate with may not be who they say they are. How do we get kids to take these risks seriously without taking the fun out of the internet?

i don’t think that sharing information about themselves would make them ‘cool’ – sharing an address or whatever doesn’t give you kudos i wouldn’t have thought.

parents need to ensure that they know what there child is doing, yes, you can use things like net nanny and those sorts of things but they aren’t really any substitute for a parent sitting down with their child and using the computer together.

you don’t mention how old the ‘kids’ are you’re talking about, until children are at an age where they understand the risks associated with internet use they should not be left alone to roam the web freely.

it’s a learning process as with anything else – you wouldn’t let a young child out to wander around the streets on their own, first you teach them how to stop at the kerb, how to look for traffic, about stranger danger and when they’re old enough and understand the dangers you let them go round the corner to the shop on their own (probably while spying on them!). it’s the same with internet access – it’s about parents being responsible.

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