What happens when children encounter a negative experience online and what can parents do?
According to the Norton Online Family Report (June 2010) 62% of children worldwide have had a negative experience online. Not surprisingly, according to the report, there is an emotional impact on children when they have a negative experience. “One third of children feel anger, upset, fear and worry. One fifth of children feel embarrassed and live with online regret.” The report states “Children feel increasing levels of responsibility for their negative experiences online,” whether from responding to an online/email scam, receiving a sexual image, seeing violent/nude images or downloading a virus to...
Read MoreScreenRetriever Product Launch
ScreenRetriever Gives Parents Total Supervision Of Children’s Internet Use Live Remote Monitoring Makes Other Online Safety Products Instantly Obsolete Sudbury, MA (PRWEB) February 10, 2011 ScreenRetriever (http://www.screenretriever.com) proudly announces the launch of its flagship namesake product, ScreenRetriever, the first and only online safety product to provide parents with real time supervision of their children’s computer activity. ScreenRetriever provides an experience similar to television’s “picture within a picture,” displaying a live image of the child’s computer...
Read MoreTweens/Teens Doing a Good Job of K.P.C (Keeping Parents Clueless)
It shouldn’t be surprising to learn that many tweens/teens don’t want their parents to know what they’re doing when they are online. It’s obvious to any parent of a teen that has walked into the room when their teen is using the computer and have seen browser windows close, browser history erased, or blockers circumvented. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, “64% of all teens say that teens do things online that they wouldn’t want their parents to know about” and “63% of teens said they know how to hide what they do online from their parents.” (Harris...
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