Posts Tagged with ‘parenting’

It is evident that internet and mobile communications have built a strong presence in our everyday lives and help us with tons of activities like monitoring our bank accounts or getting the latest news about sales or special offers from our favorite stores. Yet many feel that some of the most important fields of our real lives get less attention than deserved.
BBC has an interesting story today about parents in the UK willing to get more updates on their children [...]

Until this very moment I was absolutely sure that the majority of parents will choose video games for their children over porn or alcohol. But the results of a poll published by What They Play, a website aimed at educating parents what video games their children play, have just made me change my opinion. Yes, no matter how unbelievable this may sound, they actually claim that parents think that porn and alcohol are safer for their children than video games.
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I never seem to run out of material for one of my favorite topics: keeping children safe online. We've had New York's E-Stop legislation, and the equally useless MySpace agreement with most of the states' attorneys general. Next up? An Internet Safety Technical Task Force to “focus on identifying effective online safety tools and technologies” for keeping children and teens safe online. The task force has real teeth here, tasked with preparing quarterly reports as well as a final report [...]