Microsoft continue their series of articles about Internet and computer safety. This time it’s focussed towards informing parents about the things their kids may be doing. Great.
I like the idea of categorising he issues by age. From my experience they look just about right.
Emily is 9 and Jonathan 13 – they definitely want to do different things.
There are loads of parents out there worrying but with little advice, this advice looks to be sound advice from a company that is supposed to not care about security . We still need to make it easier for parents especially for parents with no technical understanding but if they follow this advice then they are less likely to have problems. It seems a little strange though to be getting advice from Microsoft that says:
Encourage your teens to tell you if something or someone online makes them feel uncomfortable or threatened. Stay calm and remind your kids they are not in trouble for bringing something to your attention. (It is important that your teen does not think that their computer privileges could be taken away.)
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