Ten Tips For Parenting The Facebook Generation

beliefnet.com:

Technology continues to speedily change, improve, and advance. Computers get smaller and faster, texting replaces phone conversations, and social networking websites and YouTube reign supreme. In an instant, people across the world can be connected to each other. It is a fascinating but potentially dangerous time for our children. Through it all, our parental desire remains the same: To protect our children from harm.

But how do we do that? Parenting the Facebook generation is a daunting task, and the stakes of failure are way too high. So, like all people of faith, I reach to the Lord for help. With His guidance (and my own experience), I've come up with some helpful tips (marrying practicality with faith) to parent our children in this high tech age.

Click here to view the first tip: Keeping the computer in a public place at home...

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Comments

[samboy]

I totally agree with you on the high end technology-based environment that our children are in to right now. It seems we cannot stop the development of the internet technology and this is what I am afraid of for my one and only daughter. I have 4 computers at home and I gave one of those to her personally so that she can use it for her studies. Very few students have this privilege not knowing it could somehow lead to things you are talking about here.

Thank you very much for all the tips and I promise to take them all into account and see to it that I will be on guard always. I am looking for more tips also to post in my blog and hopefully I will soon end up with more articles for my tips blog too like what you have here. If you have time, please visit my blog too. http://www.tipsparadise.com/

[levi501]

No surprises in this article. Another great tool is to use a Mac; Leopard has fantastic parental controls.

http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#tutorial=leopardparental

Levi