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Protecting Your Child When You Know Nothing
1. The Grown-Ups Guide to Social Networking Protecting Your ChildWhen You Know Nothing
2. You don’t have to understand the technology to do your job as a parent. You just have to try to understand the technology. You Know More Than You Think You Do
3. You don’t have to know what they are saying to others. You just have to know who they are talking to. Become a member of every social network your child joins.
4. Computers connected to the Internet should not be in bedrooms. Discuss why isolation makes it easier to say the wrong thing.
5. Computers with webcams should absolutely, positively not be in bedrooms. Discuss the permanence of digital information.
6. This language can profoundly hurt your child. Your child can profoundly hurt others with this language. Discuss the danger of language stripped of varied pitch.
7. Teachers can’t. It’s a parent’s job to explain why people don’t meet people they only know online.
8. Make sure your child knows that if no friend defends him, you will. Discuss the importance of defending the bullied.
9. Play ball. Bake cookies. Ride bikes. Make their off-line life interesting.
10. When you were an adolescent, what if there had been a way for you to talk to others who were like you? Your children have this. Be positive. Social networking won’t go away, because it is wonderful.