I look forward to reading more.
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I’m not letting my daughter have any social accounts until she’s 13 and I’m going to be her friend and have her passwords on all of them! Bravo to you for taking control over her Twitter account (even if it was all about Miley).
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Also, thanks for stopping by my place this weekend. I really appreciate the comment love!

We’ve had lots of talks with our sons on this subject. Our almost-16 year old is ultra-conservative, so I don’t worry too much about him. Our 12-year old is more of a risk-taker. But besides our talks, both boys took mandatory internet safety courses at school, and my younger son is always quoting from that and telling me he has an internet safety certificate! When they each signed up for Facebook, I made it a requirement that they friend me, just so I can keep an eye on what they’re posting.

On the other hand, I’m not setting a very good example for them! Because I’m a professional writer, I use my full name on everything online, including my blogs. And twice now, I’ve taken my whole family with me to meet people I met online! My son was just admonishing me about that last week when we were on vacation and meeting another online friend for the first time. But I explained how thoroughly I checked things out – it’s a different situation since both boys and I have a chronic illness that I blog about, so the people we’ve met are other ill people – including another teen – who share the same illness. I reassured the boys that in both cases, we e-mailed extensively before meeting. And who’s going to pose as a sick person?? Anyway, the irony of the situation struck me last week, so it’s funny you wrote about it now.

Do as I say, not as I do!

Sue

I subscribed to my daughter’s tweets and friended her on Facebook. I knew when an “18yr old” was chatting it up (she was 14 at the time). I sent him a friendly little message about the police finding out and him being listed as a sex offender, because I WOULD make something up. I’m crazy like that. Needless to say, he hit the road. I give her the freedom to learn, but I step in when I need to.

Man, times have changed! What happened to the days of sneaking out the window and joy riding in Dad’s car at 13? Kids have it so different….

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Bad combo! I have also seen many of my friends allowing their younger than 13yr olds get FB accounts.. for me.. lesson number 1 they’re teaching is it’s cool to lie to get what you want – cuz you’re supposed to be at least 13 to open an acct there. There is a lot of stuff said by adults that they befriend on there that I wouldn’t want my children reading!

I think it’s just extremely hard for parents to give their kids things like iPhones and such, and then expect to be able to keep tabs on what they’re doing as far as social networking. My poor kids.. I told them that they’ll be able to have cell phones when they get jobs and pay for them on their own…