The Grown-Ups Guide

to Social Networking

You don’t have to understand the technology to do your job as a parent.

You just have to try

to understand the technology.

You don’t have to know what they are saying to others. You just have to know

who they are talking to.

Computers connected to the Internet should not be in bedrooms.

Computers with webcams should absolutely, positively not be in bedrooms.

This language can profoundly hurt your child. Your child can profoundly hurt

others with this language.

Teachers can’t.

Make sure your child knows that if no friend defends him, you will.

Play ball. Bake cookies. Ride bikes.

When you were an adolescent, what if there had been a way for you

to talk to others who were like you?

Your children have this.