It's no longer just two talks that parents need to have with their kids, the New York Times suggests – "the early lesson about the 'birds and the bees' and the more delicate discussion of how to navigate a healthy sexual life as a young adult" – but now also "the [online] pornography talk." It's a great piece that quotes top sources on the subject, almost echoing one by my ConnectSafely … [Read more...] about Helping kids who encounter porn: ‘The Talk’ x3
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Declines in 2 online risks for youth: Study
Good news for online kids on two fronts this week. We're seeing a continuing decline in online sexual solicitations of young people. The widely misrepresented 2000 figure from the Crimes Against Children Research Center was "1 in 5" (more in a minute on the misrepresentation); the 2005 one was "1 in 7" (13%), and the CCRC has just announced that it's now 9% in 2010, which was when the CCRC … [Read more...] about Declines in 2 online risks for youth: Study
Exploitative site alert for parents
In the Cyberbullying Research Center blog, professor and cyberbullying researcher Sameer Hinduja took the time to alert readers to the latest representation of the Net's darkside: "IsAnyoneUp," a year-old site that he describes as "essentially a hybrid of social media and amateur pornography." Dr. Hinduja links to other articles about the site, the first of which makes it sound like the go-to … [Read more...] about Exploitative site alert for parents
.xxx won’t make porn more accessible IF…
…for now – until the blocking technology works with all browsers – families make it a rule that kids use Firefox and they download this plug-in for it: the MetaCert Add-on. Firefox is the only browser for which there's a .xxx blocking tool, but that's changing. It'll work with Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Opera soon, and I'm sure the major stand-alone filtering products will soon offer … [Read more...] about .xxx won’t make porn more accessible IF…
Latest trends in Web filtering
GetParentalControls.org has not only done parents a service in testing and ranking 9 top filtering products, they noticed some key trends in the process. First, the winners of their three categories for effective filtering are NetNanny in both the Editor's Choice and Most Secure categories and K9 Web Protection in the Most Accurate category. They invited the 20 companies in their product guide to … [Read more...] about Latest trends in Web filtering