Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kids get older and are likely to demand a little more privacy, some basic technological know-how comes into play. Surprisingly few parents realize how easy it is to find out where their kids have been surfing or to make effective use of simple software that would block access to taboo sites. Dale Berger-Daar, a Chicago early-childhood professional, says she can't check up on her 13-year-old son's activities even if she wants to. "He set the whole computer up," she says. "He can do whatever he wants." Tom Horan, a New Mexico lawyer...
...think we know whom to trust. Parents who tell a pollster they're keeping an eye on things may really be relying wishfully on someone--anyone--else, probably at school. But schools and libraries stake a claim on too little of the child's time, and inescapable First Amendment issues make it unlikely that any public agency will be or should be able to play an effective role in controlling Net access and content. That can happen only at home. One family may respond to the Web's enticements by disconnecting the phone line; another may simply make them...
...bold parental involvement. Bonnie Fell, of Skokie, Ill., is the family Internet cop, making certain at least once a month to open all the files that have been downloaded by her two teenage sons--which she'll do, she says, "whether the boys are there or not. And they know it." Carleton Kendrick, a family therapist in Medfield, Mass., suggests that accompanying your child to a website he frequents is no different from "checking out a playground where your kids go, to see that it's safe, to see who hangs around there...
...COMMERCE GUNS, BEER, DRUGS, GAMBLING--it's all available online if you know where to look or how to search for it. Credit-card requirements will keep most kids out of trouble (unless they carry their own VISA or American Express card). And more than one site offers free bingo and card games (with large cash prizes) to all comers...
VIOLENCE As we all know by now, the Internet is host to plenty of bombmaking information. From pipe bombs to napalm, it's all available in infamous online tomes like the TERRORIST'S HANDBOOK and ANARCHIST'S COOKBOOK. For better or worse, it's free speech. What's more, the same information can be found in public libraries...