Great Websites for Parents and Teens About Online Safety
Monday May 18, 2009
The Girl Scouts of the USA have partnered with Windows to create two websites focused on online safety. Let Me Knowis the site for parents and LMK is the teen site.The site for parents has helpful tips on different aspects of online safety, an option to sign up for a newsletter, and even a list of those abbreviations your teen uses when he texts. OMG IDK most of what they are talking about half the time, but you'll at least be able to translate this message if you go to the site!
The site for teens has great information on how to stay safe on line, written in a teen friendly manner. The videos are real teens talking about these safety issues, and the videos are informative without being heavy-handed (you know how your teen reacts when being "lectured"!)
Ok, C U L8R! (If you don't know what that means, you really need to visit Let Me Know!)
Comments
Awesome site. Aside from the said sites, as parents we need to educate our children how to protect themselves too. Teens nowadays are very up to date when it comes to technology. It’s either they surf too much or play online games too much. Good thing I found an article which gave me an idea which gave me an idea how to educate my kid to protect himself. http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=1738346