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Posted on 04/20/2011 10:26:00 AM PDT by stillafreemind
Parents will be reeling over the latest case of "sextortion" in the news. Sextortion is blackmailing a person over sexual pictures or videos that are on the Internet. A 10-year-old boy put a nude video on YouTube for a few minutes. He thought emails requesting nude videos were coming from girls his own age. After taking it down, he received more emails for more nude videos. When he put them off, they said they would turn him into the FBI. One email threatened to send the video to all of his friends. He sent no more videos and his mother discovered the emails and contacted police.
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We had internet in our household way before most folks even knew what it was. All of my kids were well aware that their father was a professional nerd. And there was nothing that came into, or went out of, our home via the internet that was not inspected, filtered, and logged.
People know that children are stupid and they exploit them.
Parents should know that THEIR children are stupid and TEACH them better.
I mucked up the title..its “Parents Must Teach Kids How to Avoid Internet Predators”. Sorry about that.
Not only are they stupid, but when they reach puberty they also go bat-sh*t insane.
http://www.covenanteyes.com/ - for the accountability and ability to track a kid's online use.
I would have suggested the use of the word ‘naive’ instead of ‘stupid’. Children aren’t stupid.
Adults who know better and still do these things are stupid.
“Parents Must Teach Kids How to Avoid Internet”
They have a course available, but it’s online.
If you don’t have a filter on your internet at home with kids around you should have your a$$ kicked for dereliction of parental duty.
i wonder about the value system of parents who raise their child to even think that posting theri nude pics is ok. I mena, modesty anyone?
I’ve given the “The internet is not a nice place” speech to my GF’s 14 year old at least three times in the past two years after he’s hoses up the computer with a virus or malware from blindly clicking on links.
The last event a couple of months ago ended up with him having to learn to surf with a Linux operating system.
Teach? Feh. Try Church, baseball, Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts, karate, basketball, dance lessons, lacrosse, fishing, hiking, camping, skiing, cards, Monopoly, reading together, etc.
Busy kids are good kids.
Neal Boortz said it all a couple of years ago when he said (I paraphrase), “Don’t do any sex tapes unless you want them to end up in your worst enemy’s hands at the worst possible time.” Neal’s transcendant wisdom bears repeating to all children who are coming to learn the extraordinary world of computers and the dangers inherent in getting into that world. What Johnny doesn’t post can’t be used agaisnt him.
I wish I was. The vile information other children shared with mine when they were that age removed any doubt I might have had about homeschooling. The latest thing is that any boy who doesn't have a girl friend by 2nd grade must be homosexual.
Same here. This kind of stuff is the farthest thing from my 9-year old son's mind. To him positive qualities in a girl is if she likes Hot Wheels, has the same missing front tooth as he, and will not scream at the first spider she see in his tree house. And he has no interest in the Internet at all, except for asking me to find youtube videos of tornadoes, a strange fascination of his.
thanks for the links
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