I happen to agree with you except. I don't think giving your child full unmonitored access is a good idea. It's not the fear that someone might abduct my child. I think that can happen to anyone even if your a excellent parent. It's all the other cruft on the internet that one could look at and be influenced with. If you think about how malleable a young mind is. Do you want your child going down the same road as John Phillip Walker Lindh? [1] I know my child will have access to other places that don't really filter internet access. Like the public library were anything goes. I think the schools try and keep an eye on what kids are doing though instructor supervision.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_Lindh On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Mike Patterson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011/07/20 6:00 PM, CP Constantine wrote: >> A good exercise for kids is sort of a re-work of the 1980's >> dont-talk-to-strangers campaign. (which was basically, no matter how >> much info they have that indicates they actually know you, still deny >> trust). is getting kids to ask themselves, how much info about them >> would a stranger have to know about them, before they might think this >> person was actually a trusted family friend:- now put much less than >> that online. > > One thing to be cautious of when trying to educate kids is the same > thing that campaign tripped over. Turns out that kids aren't actually > all that much endangered by strangers; parental kidnappings are far more > common, as is abuse. Whoops. > > Something I see a lot (and this is a general comment inspired by yours, > not an attack on yours) is ITSec folks getting *really* strident about > OMG DO NOT SHARE ANYTHING EVER IT IS UNSAFE AND YOU WILL BE RAPED AND > KILLED. > > Kids get messages like that a lot. About everything. They get > overloaded, and tune you out. Hell, they tune you out anyway, but > there's no reason to give them a real reason to do it. :-) So be > moderate in how you present things. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
