Parry Aftab
Parry Aftab
Parry Aftab is an American lawyer and Internet safety expert who founded the Internet safety organization WiredSafety and the consulting firm WiredTrust...
class eye parents rich technology
This is a rich and upper-middle-class problem. They have too much time, too much technology and their parents aren't around to keep an eye on them.
consequences kids online teach
Kids are doing things online that they don't do in real life. We need to teach them that online is real. They have to be accountable for what they do... and they have to be able to live with the consequences of their online actions.
kids million notes onto pages pass putting
Kids used to pass notes around in school. Now they're putting it onto pages with 42 million users.
act bad chance gives guy
It gives them a chance to not be a bad guy but play one on TV. They act out because they can, because they think they are invisible.
amnesty kids mad pictures post promise punish
Give your kids an amnesty day. Tell them you want to see everything they write and all the pictures they post and promise that you won't get mad or punish them for it.
anybody catch clean hours kids noise party
Give the kids 24 hours to clean it up. When I had kids, and they had a party downstairs . . . I would make a lot of noise before I'd go downstairs so I wouldn't catch anybody kissing.
anywhere asked control handle home kids mention monitor parents talk technology
If someone called your home and asked to talk to your kid, you would know how to handle that. But it's once there's a mention of technology that we don't know how to handle it. Parents just need to know how to control and monitor their kids as they would anywhere else.
advise approach breath kids mind parents remember
I advise parents first to take a breath and not to overact. That's not the way to approach the problem. We should remember what we did as kids and keep that in mind with what you look at.
kids
It's not about technology, it's about how much you communicate with your kids about what they are doing.
filter internet kids online seconds
The kids need to use the filter between their ears. They need to know the Internet is not between them and their computers. ... What they say online for two seconds is permanent, like a tattoo.
hide kids online
If you freak, the kids are just going to hide (their online activity).
online punch worry
In real life, you have to worry about someone spotting you if you stalk them... . Online no one's going to punch you in the face.
guys
These guys are serious, and they do care.
access internet succeed
All children? need to have access to the Internet to succeed in life,