Whilst I believe strongly that you need to empower your children to take charge of their own gaming time limits and safe viewing. There might be times where you do need to set up some electronic restrictions on a computer or gaming console as the result of a child not sticking to the agreed rules.… 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
Yes! But with supervision and with some caveats. Firstly I have to say I’m NOT a Minecraft player, however I’ve just had a play on it with my own kids on their own server… (so I’m really only saying this as a mum looking over my teens shoulders)…My two boys and their freinds are players,… Continue Reading