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06/Mar/2010 - 6:31 PM - by kerri
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My grade 6er has now become extremely computer literate. I think this may be a genetic trait, however, after a discussion with some other mums the other night the issue of facebook and google was raised. I was surprised to find out that the internet activity really does kick in from this age, and I was concerned. When my older kids went through their laptop phase the internet was a lot younger with not as much social interaction as it has these days. The major thing was being able to look up a term or an article on the web. Now with google being part of dictionary, my grade 6er has a whole new challenge ahead. How as a parent to I monitor and protect my kids online.
In our house we have decided a simple policy will now exist, all computers in the family room, none in the bedrooms or study. We will have an 'open' computer policy. What are other parents doing?
I now that trust and explanation and stranger danger are all tools that I can arm my... [Read More]
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27/Feb/2010 - 2:37 PM - by kerri
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Sometimes webmail services like optus and other products may be a problem if you want to change provider and you want a non-gmail account. Mumsweb offers a free mumsweb.com email address for our readers. Just go to Mumsweb.com - Made by Mums for Mums and Dads to register for your email address.
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26/Feb/2010 - 10:56 AM - by kerri
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With the recent facebook postings by school kids in Australia what can sites do to prevent this from happening. Mumsweb has to be careful on what is put on our site as we are liable, so we check and usually our readers alert us quickly so that we can deal with things, but I have had instances when people of put comments on the web about me personally and google and facebook don't respond to requests to take them off. In fact, one site hosted in Canada has stated that I was threatening to them. Well if there is serious defamatory personal remarks and information, then the site should protect the person and not the poster! What are your thoughts?
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26/Feb/2010 - 10:13 AM - by kerri
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Mumsweb has a special service and low rates for our readers to register both .com and .com.au all domains in fact. Why not stop the bigpond.com.au email address and have your own family name as an email address? Just click on the domain tab at the top menu button to register your own domain name from as little as $8 per year.
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16/Feb/2010 - 11:10 AM - by kerri
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Are we watching the winter olympics at the moment. Remember it was only 20 years ago that Australia was virtually non existent at the Winter Olympics. What are your thoughts?
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