Children, including teens, have so much at their
fingertips today and one being the internet with the advancements of the
smartphones. When I hear other parents say, “My kids don’t need any parental
monitoring when on the internet they are just playing games,” or “It is fine to
let me child have a social networking account, it helps them to find out what
their friends are up to.” I often wonder, they must not be hearing about what
is happening in the digital age. In
2011, Shawn Henry, Executive Assistant Director at the FBI, estimated, that at
any given time, there are 750,000 online child predators. And in January of
2012, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children placed the total
number of sex offenders in the United States to be 747,408.
To me, these are very high numbers to let children
go online without any parental monitoring. Knowing online predators use the
social networking sites as their online playground and online predators fall
across all socio-economic groups, children of all ages, including teens are
just not mature enough to know how to handle tricky, manipulative online
predators. Children can gain access to
the internet much easier and simpler today because of the smartphones. For the
safety of your children, take a moment to talk to them and look into mobile parental controls that are
for your child’s cell phone. My Mobile Watchdog is here to help parents and children.
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