{"id":2923,"date":"2013-09-06T05:26:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.periniassociates.com\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:46:20","slug":"ways-teens-safe-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/2013\/09\/06\/ways-teens-safe-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Ways to Keep Teens Safe Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<html><body><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1307\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/eperinireadviewbr3j.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1307\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1307\" alt=\"LinkedIn logo with white and blue color scheme.\" src=\"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/eperinireadviewbr3j.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"161\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Worth reading or viewing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Another<strong> eperini Readview <\/strong>worth your time!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: &Acirc;&nbsp;Macworld.com\/Abbi Perets<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, all I had to do Six Ways to Keep Teens Safe OnlineNow, my daughters are 12 and 14, and each has her own iPhone. Their online lives are lived in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/\">WhatsApp<\/a>,&Acirc;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Facebook<\/a>&Acirc;&nbsp;comments, texts, and occasional emails. They regularly interact with kids I&acirc;&euro;&trade;ve never met. While they&acirc;&euro;&trade;re (probably) smart enough not to reveal information to strangers&Acirc;&nbsp;<em>they&acirc;&euro;&trade;ve<\/em>&Acirc;&nbsp;never met, my daughters are at risk for cyberbullying (both being bullied and being bullies), overexposure on social networks, and even sexual solicitation.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it: With a phone in her pocket, a typical teen has the ability to spend hours&acirc;&euro;&rdquo;days!&acirc;&euro;&rdquo;interacting with her peers, completely unfettered by parental supervision. And how has that worked out in the past?&Acirc;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0097493\/\"><em>Heathers<\/em><\/a>?&Acirc;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lord_of_the_Flies\"><em>Lord of the Flies<\/em><\/a>? Short of banning all the technology&acirc;&euro;&rdquo;a solution I have, at times, considered&acirc;&euro;&rdquo;what&acirc;&euro;&trade;s a concerned parent to do? &Acirc;&nbsp;Read more: &Acirc;&nbsp;&Acirc;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/6-WAYS-TO-KEEP-TEENS-SAFE-ONLINE.pdf\">6 WAYS TO KEEP TEENS SAFE ONLINE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Another eperini Readview worth your time! &nbsp; Source: &Acirc;&nbsp;Macworld.com\/Abbi Perets &nbsp; A few years ago, all I had to do Six Ways to Keep Teens Safe OnlineNow, my daughters are 12 and 14, and each has her own iPhone. Their online lives are lived inWhatsApp,&Acirc;&nbsp;Facebook&Acirc;&nbsp;comments, texts, and occasional emails. They regularly interact with kids [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,195],"tags":[423,73,77,102,48,446,232,25,447],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice-and-counsel","category-social-media-2","tag-colorado-pr","tag-facebook","tag-online","tag-perini","tag-perini-associates","tag-safety","tag-smart-phones","tag-social-media","tag-teens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periniassociates.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}