Parental monitoring of your teen's cell phone can help
protect not only them, but you. Here are some important tips to following to
help protect your family when it comes to monitoring kids’ cell phones
and social networks.
- If your teen has multiple social networking accounts that they are accessing from their cell phone, make sure they use a different password for each one in case someone hacks into the accounts and gets the password. Gaining access to passwords, gives wrongdoers the opportunity to scam your family and friends by getting access to everyone’s personal information.
- If teens do have information that is public on their social networking account, make sure they don’t post where they hang out or live and especially don’t post if they are home alone. I know many younger teens like to boast to their friends they are home alone, but this is not safe when it comes to social networks. The best advice is not to make any information public in teens’ settings.
- Teens should never become friends with any online that they don’t know. If your teen is unsure, have him/her think of it this way, would you welcome someone you don’t know inside your home or bedroom? If you don’t know someone, always remember people can pretend to be anyone they want to be online and lie to people they meet online. Remember everything you post on the internet never goes away it lives in the cyber world forever for anyone to see.
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First of all, phones are not a necessity or a right. And I honestly can't understand why any parent would not check. Would we let random kids, up to hundreds of contacts, into our home or into our child's bedroom without meeting them? It is the SAME thing if you let them text/contact/facebook, etc. without bothering to check.
ReplyDeleteAbdication of parental responsibility is neglient, pure and simple. It is our JOB to know how, figure it out, and care. The foundation for all this is layed when they are much younger..when you do have to approach things like this they are much more likely to respond positively if you have always been doing it....
Short and sweet article. Agree with most of the points. I personally felt that if you want to know your child's cellphone usages, it's better to opt for any parenting controlling software. I am using 'cellpolice.com' which gives me some extraordinary features to track and monitor my teen's cellphone activities. Small investment but huge benefits.
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