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Re: ideas needed
From: Michael Miller <mike.mikemiller () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:43:46 -0700
I happen to agree with you except. I don't think giving your child full unmonitored access is a good idea. It's not the fear that someone might abduct my child. I think that can happen to anyone even if your a excellent parent. It's all the other cruft on the internet that one could look at and be influenced with. If you think about how malleable a young mind is. Do you want your child going down the same road as John Phillip Walker Lindh? [1] I know my child will have access to other places that don't really filter internet access. Like the public library were anything goes. I think the schools try and keep an eye on what kids are doing though instructor supervision. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_Lindh On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Mike Patterson <mike () snowcrash ca> wrote:
On 2011/07/20 6:00 PM, CP Constantine wrote:A good exercise for kids is sort of a re-work of the 1980's dont-talk-to-strangers campaign. (which was basically, no matter how much info they have that indicates they actually know you, still deny trust). is getting kids to ask themselves, how much info about them would a stranger have to know about them, before they might think this person was actually a trusted family friend:- now put much less than that online.One thing to be cautious of when trying to educate kids is the same thing that campaign tripped over. Turns out that kids aren't actually all that much endangered by strangers; parental kidnappings are far more common, as is abuse. Whoops. Something I see a lot (and this is a general comment inspired by yours, not an attack on yours) is ITSec folks getting *really* strident about OMG DO NOT SHARE ANYTHING EVER IT IS UNSAFE AND YOU WILL BE RAPED AND KILLED. Kids get messages like that a lot. About everything. They get overloaded, and tune you out. Hell, they tune you out anyway, but there's no reason to give them a real reason to do it. :-) So be moderate in how you present things. Mike _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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