Where do you place your child's computer?

[daisyt]

From the ST today - Ignorant of what kids do online


http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_550531.html

A SURVEY has revealed that 73 per cent of Singapore children encountered negative experience online.

This resulted in them feeling angry, annoyed, fearful, disgusted and shocked, among other things.

The Norton Online Family Report 2010, which involved 101 children aged 10 to 17 and 102 parents of children aged 10 to 17, was conducted in April this year.

The survey also showed that stranger danger is a real threat to children online.

About 26 per cent of the children surveyed said they have someone they didn't know try to meet them in the real world.

And only 11 per cent of parents were aware of this.

This also illustrates the gap between what children do online, and parents' awareness of their online activities.

[singapore45]

Wow thanks for sharing. Interesting

[itsjustme]

My 2 children share a computer that I put in the living hall. DD is going to be sec 2 nx year and I am thinking of buying one for her to be put at her room.


As much as we parents knows about what lurks in the cyber space, but I am thinking that perhaps it might be time for my girl to have some privacy and not get distracted when she does her hw with the PC.

My darling do agree with me, and we are looking into some form of PC control such as monitoring web activities for at least afew years still… She is now in a age where we parents starts to worry.

[sydney]

itsjustme:

My 2 children share a computer that I put in the living hall. DD is going to be sec 2 nx year and I am thinking of buying one for her to be put at her room.


As much as we parents knows about what lurks in the cyber space, but I am thinking that perhaps it might be time for my girl to have some privacy and not get distracted when she does her hw with the PC.

My darling do agree with me, and we are looking into some form of PC control such as monitoring web activities for at least afew years still. She is now in a age where we parents starts to worry.

Monitoring web activity has its limitations - even innocent sites like FACEBOOK has risks. Kids these days accept anyone to be their friends inorder to boost their friends list and also help them in their FB games. Youtube has lots of videos with vulagrity and bad messages. Also web browser has functions that allow \"private browsing\" which will not leave any traces of the sites surfed.

Indeed, its a difficult task for us parents to balance.

[cyn-w]

my son's computer is in the living room too.. and he usually gets about one hour of usage a day. try not to let it be too much, haha recently the MDA cyber wellness was at his school (2 days ago, actually) ... cyber wellness campaign was launched last week. the bus is like a mobile classroom: i went to have a look! kiosks with games and computer screens.


so for the past 2 nights we've been reading through the http://cyberwellness.org.sg together, especially the section on resources, which we both felt was very helpful and interesting. tips on gaming addiction, cyber bullying, copyright, privacy. he even tried playing some of the games

it's a good resource, just thought i'd share very excited by this campaign, because it was just what i was worrying about recently, what with kids spending so much time online now ...

[ANobleNerd]

The iMac's in the living room, in full view of everyone. It's useful there because the younger kids can access it for their animated stories.


Also, having the desktop in the living room means that no. 1 won't have the chance to surf after his bedtime. I'm better able to monitor that he's in his bedroom sleeping, rather than accessing the computer after everyone's asleep.

[hihikitty]

Instead of visually monitor what and where our DD and DS surf, a more efficient way is to look at the history cache in the browser.