Doing

The doing part of internet safety:
For this part of the unit i went and talked with my brother and his wife who have two pre-teens and a six year old. all of their children are very computer savvy. My brother knows how to work a computer better then most and his wife is the exact opposite. i just talked to them about the importance of internet safety and what precautions they can do to keep their children out of harms way. for the most part they already knew a lot about what i was saying. they kept their computer in an open spot in the house they had net nanny to kept adult site from popping up on the tv and they also regulated the amount of free time each child got on the computer. there was one area that i feel i was able to help them in that was dealing with social networking. there oldest son who is 13 wants to get facebook. they were really hesitant about letting him do that. i talk with them about the article Dr. Graham wrote and about presiding. i also talked with them about slowly easing their child into it and closely monitoring the activity until the child and parent felt comfortable about the situation. over all i thought that this was a positive experience for all involved.