Thank you to all the parents who came for our parent night on Monday. Debbie Gordon presented some great tips for dealing with tweens and the web! Just a few points of interest that came from the presentation that might be useful fo all of us:
-Remember that dealing with the internet is still 80% parenting and 20% being a techie
-#1 issue today is time management-how do you get your child off the computer?
-reminding kids to think before they click-it's so immediate they forget to think first
-the new term being used is the "Digital Footprint"-a new term being used in the marketing/technological world -"Scrubbing"-parents are now paying companies to scrub their child's past inappropriate "on-line" activities as more and more companies, universities, scholarship funds are doing searches on candidates
-as parents, we need to learn about "privacy" settings on Facebook etc.-our children can be "default junkies" and tend not to even look at the above
She also fowarded a couple of links that may be useful for you:
http://www.ipc.on.ca/index.asp?navid=46&fid1=615
http://safety.sympatico.msn.ca/
Look forward to another daytime presentation for parents and also a hands-on workshop for those of you who want to know how to open up a Facebook account.
