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How to Play It Safe Online… With Kids
Do your kids play Club Penguin?
How about Webkinz? Or, Whyville for 13+?
Do you let your kids go online? Are you watching over their shoulders? Or washing the dishes? (like me!)
This week, Michelle Hainer, a writer and editor in New York, interviewed yours truly about “Safe Social Networking Sites Kids Love.”
I have mixed feelings about letting my Big Girl play online — I also just learned that Club Penguin was recently purchased by Disney (yikes) — but as I said to Michelle, Mae is “is improving her math skills because she’s learning to save money to buy things…”
Maybe? I hope so–
P.S. And no, the photo on Online Family is NOT of Mae and me… if you know us, you know that. Although I do have a few gray hairs now.
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Tags: Children, Club Penguin, computer, Disney, Family, Kids, networking, online, safe, safety, The Online Family Discussion
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Big A has webkins and her own email (which I monitor).
She came screeching around the corner one day to tell me that she won a free i-pod; to which we had to have the conversation again about where she is allowed to visit…while I’m washing the dishes. (Fine, laying on the couch watching football).
Hilarious!.. I swear to you, the night before last, Mae screamed out, “Mom, I won an I-Pod!” and I screamed back, “Do NOT push that button!!”
“But, Mom, it says that I won–”