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March 5, 2010

Should Teens be Responsible for Facebook?

Filed under: Cyberbullying, Family — Tags: , — BarbR @ 4:58 pm

Interesting article you might want to check out-Should Teens be Responsible for Facebook? What do you think:http://www.blisstree.com/articles/should-teens

One way to know for sure what your kids are saying and doing on Facebook is to be-freind them.  Invited their freinds to be your friends as well. 

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February 4, 2010

Online Safety Concerns

Filed under: Announcements, Cyberbullying, Family — Tags: , , — BarbR @ 2:41 pm

What concerns you most about online safety?  Take our brief 8 questions survey and let us know:   http://bit.ly/b9RRgm

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January 25, 2010

Kids Can Get Around Privacy Settings in Club Penguin

Filed under: Family — Tags: , , , — BarbR @ 4:16 pm

It seems innocent enough that your child spends time on Club Penguin-many kids do.  Beyond playing the games it seems as if many spend more time trying to figure out ways to circumvent the privacy settings of the web site.  This article explains exactly how they do it–discovered by a mom who went undercover.

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/01/21/consumer-childrens-privacy.html 

Kids today spend so much time online be sure to talk to them about what they should and shouldn’t do.

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