All of the NBC Dateline coverage of sexual predators using the internet and chat rooms to contact children and adolescents has made parents much more aware of the dangers of the internet. What parents may not realize is that many gaming consoles allow children to access the internet. Even if parents are aware that children can access the internet through gaming consoles, savvy children can bypass parental controls.
Police officers are now going undercover to to catch predators playing interactive games and they are making arrests. For example, a man in Utah was arrested after he enticed a 12-year-old boy into having sex through an online game. A similar situation occurred in Michigan and involved a 12-year-old girl.
Xbox, Playstation, and Wii all allow children to access the internet directly, but all of the have ways for parents to turn off the access to the internet or to track the content. We can’t cut off all the contact our children have with others, but we need to monitor internet contact as vigilantly as we monitor personal contact.
As a parent, it is important to recognize that any way children can communicate with others becomes a way that sexual predators can target your children. Technology invites sexual predators into the lives of our children. We have to be sure that we are keeping the door closed to cyberspace solicitations aimed at our children.
I agree with you and would want to make the most of my time left. I would also want to leave with no regrets.
I would appreciate our linking to each other’s websites if that’s ok with you!
Donna
It was so interesting story I am a Teacher of 3 grade in a private school in Kosova and I thing like you dear Dr.Beth we must thing about these children with these problems in their house we must help them in any way they need, I hope you understand my English language .
Key of a positive world and our future is NOT stop thinking of problems any problems of children in world because is not like you work with happy and loved child and from permisive family like you work with children with represive family , we must help them so early not to be late for them they are most important thing in this world but we must not just think but we must do that what is the best for them in practice , to be their live more easy and not so hard because how we educate them like infant or from prenatal periode they will be like these a factor in their social life and will grow their family in that atmosphere with a positive or negative influence in this wonderful world .
But I see that we make them like a robot and not like a human been we work, we dont have time for them to love to learn them how to live their life so lovely WE WORK ALL DAY but we dont think never for whom we do that money and everything for our robots , or for our lovely child …………………