Many parents I speak to when I give my talks and classes on Cyber Safety tell me awful stories about their children coming across porn by mistake via Google search, its becoming all to common. This is very sad especially as many of them are under 11yrs old and this type of exposure is… Continue Reading
Just when you thought you could put off cyber safety issues until your children are teens, parents are finding out the hard way that teens aren’t the only ones with internet computer cyber safety problems. Tots on Smart Phones The use of internet connected devices like iPads and other tablets, computers, and smart phones are… Continue Reading
I’ve just had a guest post published on the ABC Technology & Games website, about Cyber Safety,Kids and games classification in Australia titled “Do Australia Parents Understand Cyber Safety And Games” which…I think might cause a bit of discussion….. I’m afraid statistics show that the majority of Australian parents do not understand cyber safety and… Continue Reading
There were one or two comments made to me via twitter, about the stats I provided, on my last post on online safety and kids, particularly the one about “64 percent of all teens say they do things online they don’t want their parents to know about”. I’d like to talk about the concern I… Continue Reading
From a recent article on Dawn.com “WASHINGTON: Some 7.5 million of the 20 million minors who used Facebook in the past year were younger than 13, and a million of them were bullied, harassed or threatened on the site, says a study released Tuesday. Even more troubling, more than five million Facebook users were 10… Continue Reading