Julie in Florida writes about her 14-year-old son's experience with Halo 2 and how kids view game chat with Xbox Live (the online version of Halo 2, connecting players worldwide). Tito in Portugal tells of what it's like to deal with the video and online game interests of sons aged 8, 14, and 24! Tito's experience shows how universal many tech-parenting issues are. Please see this week's issue of … [Read more...] about Parents (in 2 countries) on games
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Teen blogger charged with murder
STLpunk.com is a perfectly respectable blogging service for punk rock fans that last summer reached the million-visitors-a-month mark, but now its creator, Jerome Gaynor finds himself saying about posts in the site: "I'm completely shocked and depressed about where things have gone…. There are certain things - threats, excessive obscenity, advocating racial violence, disgusting insults against … [Read more...] about Teen blogger charged with murder
Privacy experts on kids’ privacy
It's an unusual subject for the Washington Post's computer-security expert, but it was probably the school bomb threats that got Brian Krebs writing about kids' privacy, as well as security on a whole different level. "After the fourth bomb threat within a few weeks ["up north" of D.C.], the county sheriff held a town meeting where he urged the parents to check the logs of the online chat … [Read more...] about Privacy experts on kids’ privacy
‘Web-proofing your kids’
I wished I had the numbers in front of me when CBS tech correspondent and SafeKids.com publisher Larry Magid interviewed me about a University of New Hampshire study on online exploitation of kids, but here's the piece with the numbers. And here's Larry's CBSNews.com article today on smart parenting of online kids during the summer, when they have a lot more time on their hands. Parents of younger … [Read more...] about ‘Web-proofing your kids’
‘The secret life of boys’
That's the headline of a thoughtful, thorough Boston Globe article about US boys' increasing exposure to pornography. "Hard-core [online] porn has apparently gone mainstream," the Globe reports, citing the views of both young people and adults on this development. What worries psychologists quoted in the article is what happens to a normal biological curiosity about "what girls look like" when … [Read more...] about ‘The secret life of boys’