Do You Believe Kids And Teen Are Free From Harm In Online Chatrooms?
Lets consider the following scene
Lets consider the following scene. You are planning a trip holiday in a few days. You have everything ready. You are packed ready to go on your dream vacation. You leave your seventeen year old son Paul in command of the house for that week or so that your elsewhere. After all its just a week or so and you have left him enough funds for food and all other expenses he might require while you are not present. You remind him that he is not to open the door to immigrants and that no one is to set foot in the house who are not other family members or friends he knows well. How safe is your seventeen year old son?
Hazard or no hazard?
whilst you were carefully and skilfully deliberating the pros and cons, trying to reach a balance whether or not it would be a good idea to leave Paul home alone, you forgot about the biggest hazard of all "your computer".
A home computer to an adult is merely a tool (resource) to find information. But that same computer to a youngster is the doorway that leads to a social culture never seen before.
.
It is hard for any parents to imagine or even comprehend that the family computer or individual laptops we entrust on to our children to do school projects or play games has become as dangerous as that infamous Secluded dark alley-way. As parents We really do need to treat computers in the same context as that dark alleyway, and think of added improved ways to monitor our children online?
Something very innocent as a chat room can be dangerous to your teenager. Anyone could enter a chatting room. Our children get bored sometimes and they might search for chat rooms as a way to entertain themselves and meet new friends. Chat rooms are not bad, they were created so that people can converse with each other from all parts of our world. What I'm saying is that chat rooms could attract both good and bad people. Just like in our work or school there are both good and bad people. What I'm saying is that just as we instruct our kids and teens of the dangers out there in the real world we require to instruct them of the risks of the cyber world.
What to do?
The first step to take as a parent is to converse with your child about the known dangers from information exchanging while participating in conversations on chat rooms, social media websites. It is a good idea to always place a computer where you may monitor it visually from time to time or you may take covert steps and monitor your children's online activities with the use of a secret and invisible computer keylogger. The use of the keylogger would give you instant virtual eyes and let you see your children virtual character as well as the way they surf the net.
It's essential to take care of our teens from both real life hazards and on the www hazards. our own selves may assist in keeping our teens safe and sound from both by talking with them at a very early age of these hazards. After all, technology pushes us more and more to use the internet.