Comments on: FamilyEducation offers tips for keeping kids safe in cyberspace http://www.901am.com/2007/familyeducation-offers-tips-for-keeping-kids-safe-in-cyberspace.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=familyeducation-offers-tips-for-keeping-kids-safe-in-cyberspace New Media News Every Morning Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:12:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Oleg the Online Family Safety Consultant http://www.901am.com/2007/familyeducation-offers-tips-for-keeping-kids-safe-in-cyberspace.html/comment-page-1#comment-14559 Oleg the Online Family Safety Consultant Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:42:20 +0000 http://www.901am.com/2007/familyeducation-offers-tips-for-keeping-kids-safe-in-cyberspace.html#comment-14559 "The Online Web Guide for Parents also explains chat abbreviations and acronyms that may be warning signs that kids are chatting with strangers online". It's certainly helpful to be able to understand kids' online abbreviations. But parents should spend more time educating children about the dangers of the online world in the first place. And they should use whatever means possible to make sure that they do know about all the important communications. Otherwise their child may show them his/her chat messages, but hide phone sms messages or vice versa “The Online Web Guide for Parents also explains chat abbreviations and acronyms that may be warning signs that kids are chatting with strangers online”.

It’s certainly helpful to be able to understand kids’ online abbreviations. But parents should spend more time educating children about the dangers of the online world in the first place. And they should use whatever means possible to make sure that they do know about all the important communications. Otherwise their child may show them his/her chat messages, but hide phone sms messages or vice versa

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