subject: Internet Safety For Teens And Being Prepared [print this page] As parents we do everything we can to keep our children safe, and teaching Internet safety to teens can be a chore to say the least. Many teens today have an attitude with situations like this and think that they can handle the problem all by themselves. But the truth is that we as parents have to keep diligent in the fight against these threats to our teens and to ourselves. Both kids and adults alike are curious in what the Internet has to offer us and especially via chat rooms and the interaction of someone else sitting and doing the same things that you are at the time.
While this situation is not wrong by any means with the way you are doing this, on the other hand it can be dangerous, especially if someone finds out personal information out about youre teen and has other intentions for using the information that are malicious. Most of the time the predators try to exploit the situation and lure unsuspecting teens down the wrong road. This is just another reason to have Internet safety for teens and the entire family aware of the dangers that lure there on the vastness we call the Internet.
There has been much advancement in software that we as parents can install to try to combat the threats that could happen on a daily basis. Basically, a predator will sit online in a chat room and wait for young people to come into chat, naive and ready and willing to divulge personal information.This information can include what school they go to, where they live, where they work, and where they are going to be at a certain time of the day.The predator acts so nice and caring and starts a conversation with him or her, eventually moving on to some explicit talk and asking inappropriate questions.Eventually they are going to be adamant about meeting. They move in fast and if they do not get what they want, they are going to move out to prey on someone that is responsive to their advances. If you teach your teens some of the signs that can be associated with this then you are part of the way there to keeping them safe and teaching Internet safety to teens.
Just take into account that young girls are the ones that are preyed on the most trying to sweet talk them into activity that requires predators to meet them somewhereand that is dangerous and should be avoided at all costs. This should be incorporated in the talk you have with your teen about Internet safety for your teens and the importance of following the rules and making good choices online and in life.
