Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Deciding when to be a cyber-parent

Finding out what your kids are up to in cyberspace can be touchy, but experts say parents must try

By Gillian Shaw, Vancouver Sun

Julianne Doctor doesn't bother sneaking around cyberspace to see what her teenage daughter Hayley is doing.

Instead, in the cyber-parenting version of having all the kids welcome to hang out in your rec room, Doctor wanders in and out of her daughter's cyberspaces and knows who she is hanging around with and what they're up to.

At a time when the first reaction of adults to this week's story about the Facebook "hit list" is to unplug the modem, or at the very least rush off to buy the latest cyber-sleuthing software for parents, Doctor's approach probably isn't the norm.

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1 comment:

  1. Big brother is watching you!!!! it's inevidable the more complex technology gets, the more everyone knows your business. letting your kids on things like face book at too early of an age is not a good idea. all these chat forums, facebook,twitter etc is just asking for trouble in the future

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