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Parenting has not changed much in the last one hundred years, except in that the Internet is posing additional challenges for parents to protect their children from coming to harm at the hands of strangers.
Child predators abound on the Internet. They hang out where our kids hang out. They try to fit in where our kids spend their time. And as parents, that makes our job of protecting our children a bit harder.
But, as with anything in our world, there are steps we can take to help prevent our children from meeting the bad people who await their appearance.
- We can teach our children about the dangers of meeting someone they talk to online.
- We can teach our children how to react in a meeting with a stranger.
- We can take steps to teach our children how to protect themselves in dangerous situations.
- We can monitor the activities of our children. (Monitoring is not dirty like spying. Our children should not expect to have "privacy". Even the Supreme Court agrees that "privacy" is a right granted to adults and only in the privacy of their own homes, in most situations.)
- Technology is our friend. There are a number of software tools available on the internet that can help us watch, monitor, and protect our children from danger.
Of course, most of us with younger children really do not have to pay much mind to what our kids do on the Internet. But, there will come a day when we MUST absolutely be paying close attention to the activities of our children online.
I find myself addressing many concerns of my own children due to the influence of television and commercial advertising online.
Recently, my own six-year-old boy tried to convince me that I need to buy him some ProActive. I was confused and asked him why. He insisted that he needed to get a bottle of ProActive to keep his complexion clear.
I tried to explain to my boy that he is far too young to be worried about his complexion. Besides, I told him that Jessica is really an airhead, and we should not pay very close attention to what she says anyway. {evil grin}
Death and dying is also a challenge. As parents, we do not always know how to explain such things to our children. When a good friend of the family passed away recently, I took on the challenge of explaining to my then five-year-old son. I explained that Randy had passed away and that he had gone to heaven.
He seemed to appreciate the nature of death just fine, until a day recently when he asked me where Randy's skeleton had gone.
In this section of our website, we will focus on sharing parenting stories from parents who have guided children of all ages.
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