It's no secret that our kids are Internet savvy. Social-media profiles, e-mail and texts are as much a part of their daily lives as bikes and tree houses were to those of a generation before
That means parents are on the front lines, in 2014, when it comes to monitoring what their kids do online. It's not a one-size-fits all equation.
While more than 50% of U.S. adolescents visit a social-media site every day, and 75% of them own smartphones — according to a recent American Academy of Pediatrics paper — even tweens are online. Some 30% of parents polled told Parenting.com that they allow their 10–12 year olds to use Facebook. And, of children even younger, 80% of those who do go online are using the Internet at least once per week Read more...
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