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  • Wednesday, September 26, 2007

    Have "the talk" with your teen

    So have you had "the talk" yet with your teens?

    No, not about the birds and the bees, but about online predators and the peer-to-peer nets. A new survey indicates a lot of people have. The study by Common Sense Media and Cable in the Classroom finds that 85 percent of parents and legal guardians of children who go online have talked to their kids about how to behave on the Internet. More than 93 percent say they have taken steps to make sure the Web sites their kids check out meet their standards. Among those surveyed, parents say the biggest issues to warn about are excessive exposure to ads or commercialism online;exposure to bad language, sexual or violent content online, and exposure to misleading or bad information.

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