Oh the Internet. This is one subject I cannot talk about without in the process, giving you the information you need to better protect your kids. This is a topic I am passionate about and believe every parent should be skilled in. The Internet is such a wonderful invention, and in today’s society, it is hard to do anything without it in some capacity. Kids have to have access for school, and even for filling out applications for jobs. Kids are on social networking sites, and they play games online. You have to remember, there is the downside. Parents, please, know what your kids do online. We have so many kids who are allowed to roam free with no supervision and it is costing them more than you can imagine. Many parents have the “My kid would never do that attitude.” Guess what? Yes they will. It is called being a teenager. You have to be involved. You have to know what to look for. You have to ask questions. When we have one in seven kids being solicited online, there is a problem. I want you to look at your kids, and their friends, and I want you to get seven of them in a room with you. Then I want you to decide which one of those kids you are going to sacrifice to a predator. Whether you want to believe it or not, it will happen to one of them. There are so many parents who do not have the option anymore of knowing what their child is doing when they are online. There are so many parents out there who have had a child who has been “damaged” by an internet predator, or even worse, killed. If you want to trust your child online, fine. Don’t trust who is on the other side of that monitor.
Look at it this way. Would you allow your 13 year old to go to France by themselves with no supervision? Probably not. Why not? Because it is a strange place filled with strange people you do not know. Then why would you allow your child unsupervised in the one place where there are no faces with the names? Why would you allow your child in the one place unsupervised where anyone can be who they want to be, and hide behind a mask that is the monitor?
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