Twenty Percent of Kids Talk to Strangers On Social Media
Almost 20% of children talk to strangers every day on social media according to recent research. This includes half of nine year olds, despite age restriction on most social media sites. Most nine years olds simply cannot understand the risks. Perhaps older children think that doing so is harmless, that strangers have no idea who they are in the real world and have no way to find out. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Almost anyone, child or not, who has an online presence can be identified by various means unless they go to considerable lengths to avoid it. Clues range from physical location...
Read MoreJudgment – The Teenage Brain Impacts Online Safety
Thanks to Amy Williams for this Guest Blog Post! How Does the Teenage Brain Impact Online Safety? When a baby is learning to walk and toddles too close to the stairs, we thank our lucky stars once we catch her in time. Our child having done this is no mystery; her brain isn’t developed yet, meaning she is unable to perceive the danger of the stairs. We protect our babies by installing safety gates because of this. When an 8-year-old rides his bike over a makeshift ramp and tumbles to the ground, we thank heavens he didn’t hurt himself too badly. We know this whole incident occurred because the...
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