Adults who work with young people often walk a fine line between being friendly and remaining an authority figure. While being liked is important for a positive student-teacher relationship, demarcating clear boundaries and keeping professional distance is required to maintain…

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Ofcom recently released figures that suggest some parents need to ramp up web safety talks with their kids.  According to the Ofcom report, over half of 11 to 16 year olds feel there is a shortage of parental advice when…

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Originally published December 29, 2009

For online communication technologies like messengers and chat rooms, a major question of concern among parents is: Who is my child chatting with?

While most teens would assure parents they’re using instant messaging (IM) and…

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As if the constant threat of sexual predators near schools and in neighborhoods wasn’t enough for parents to worry about, now almost a million of them are entering homes with relative ease via the Internet.  A recent United Nations report…

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As much as we would like to avoid the stereotype, when someone speaks of sexual predators, many of us would conjure up an image of a poker-faced, grungy, unfortunate looking adult male.   Often, female sex offenders don’t immediately come to…

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Michigan’s attorney general recently introduced legislation that would enable law enforcement to enforce tougher penalties on convicted online child predators.  The set of bills would require convicts to 1) register in the state’s official registry as sex offenders, 2) prohibit…

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Every day, thousands of teenagers participate in what has been labelled “sexting” (sending sexually explicit pictures of themselves using cell phones or the internet) and cyberbullying.

For most of us, the concept is ludicrous. We would know those pictures could have…

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By special guest author Lenore Skenazy.

“New study shows huge increase in arrests of online predators.”

I can guarantee you, that is the headline you are about to hear on TV and read in the papers. Terrified for your children, you will…

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The Crisp Thinking Group has developed software that can intelligently analyze online conversations to detect pedophiles and determine the potential danger of the conversation. The company’s software called Anti Grooming Engine (AGE) is designed to analyze the content of a…

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Below is a list of past news stories on online predators.  It reads like a list of the wounded from a battle, but these soldiers didn’t have a chance against their enemy. Even with the government raising the age of…

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