Protecting Kids Online 3: Teach Your Children

“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.” – Elbert Hubbard In the first part of this series, we tried to cut through some of the irrational fears about online safety and put the issue into perspective. In part 2, we looked at some tips for parents [...]

Posted on May 27th, 2008 by John Schinker
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Protecting Kids Online 2: Tips for Parents

In the first part of this series, we examined the issue of cybersafety. Hopefully, we dispelled some myths and put the issue into perspective. While it’s important to protect our kids online, and it’s important to teach them to protect themselves, it is not at all likely that our children will become the victims of [...]

Posted on May 20th, 2008 by John Schinker
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Protecting Kids Online 1: How Big is the Problem?

I’ve received a couple questions lately about keeping kids safe online. We see news reports all the time about the danger of social networking sites, and the problems with posting personal information online, and the number of children who have been exposed to inappropriate material online. Today, I’m starting a series of blog posts about [...]

Posted on May 15th, 2008 by John Schinker
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Truth

Once upon a time, there was a voice in the darkness. The voice spoke, and her words were truth. The truth enlightened the huddled masses, who were huddled because they were cold. The heat was lower and the lights dimmer than normal because there was an energy crisis. As they sat on carpet squares in [...]

Posted on May 6th, 2008 by John Schinker
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Burying the Feed

It’s been an RSS day. It started last night, actually, when I was trying to figure out how to get an RSS feed of an entire Google Reader account into a Protopage (still haven’t figured that one out). Then, there was the challenge of helping my wife get an RSS feed of her Twitter messages [...]

Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by John Schinker
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