GROWING UP ONLINE - PART 5 - PARENTING, PRIVACY, AND CONTROL
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Margot Leysen Grade 12
Part 5: Parenting, Privacy and Control (The Child Predator Fear and Private Worlds Outside Parents’ Reach?)
5.1. In the program, we see parents who are actively monitoring teens’ online use and other parents who are not. What factors play a role in whether or not a parent will be involved in monitoring teens’ online media use? From your point of view, what forms of involvement are most useful? Least useful?
The factor that plays the biggest role in parents’ involvement is the level of distrust in the Internet of the parents. When parents are convinced that the Internet is full of predators, they will increase the amount of monitoring. Another factor that will play a role is the amount of trust the parents have in their children. Also, the age of the child using the Internet will be important. When the parents know their child has a big sense of responsibility and knows the difference between right and wrong, the parents will decrease their monitoring.
I think that monitoring the teens’ online media use should not be too strict. If you as a parent have a good relationship with your child, I would just talk to talk it about what it does on the Internet. I think you should give your child some freedom; otherwise it will just do it behind your back. The best way to avoid your child being in a dangerous Internet environment is through a good communication between the parent and the child.
5.2. Shows like “To catch a Predator” on Dateline NBC contribute to parental anxiety about online media. What elements of this FRONTLINE program are likely to increase parents” fears? What elements of the program might be reassuring?
Programs like this show only the negative side of online usage. They interview only parents with very strong, negative views of the Internet. The parents who are viewing this program will only remember the extreme examples causing their fears of the Internet to increase. Also, FRONTLINE interviews an author and a woman who has a PhD in online communication. This may seem like they know exactly the dangers of the Internet so what they say is totally accurate. But these people may have adjusted what they are saying so that it fits in the message of the program.
5.3. Evan Skinner e-mailed parents in her community after she learned about the photos taken when her son and other students went to a rock concert and got drunk. Ryan Halligan’s dad contacted the parent of another teen whose Web site was full of suicidal thoughts and feelings. Why did they do this? What are some consequences of reaching out to other parents to share concerns?
The parents contacted other parents to protect the children. As a parent it is their job to take care of them so by contacting the other parents their safety maintained. Some of the consequences may be that the children do not trust their parents completely since they went behind their back to contact other parents. Another consequence might be that the child does not like the parent at that moment since he or she might make the child look ‘uncool’ because his or her parent took away all ‘the cool pictures’.
Part 5: Parenting, Privacy and Control (The Child Predator Fear and Private Worlds Outside Parents’ Reach?)
5.1. In the program, we see parents who are actively monitoring teens’ online use and other parents who are not. What factors play a role in whether or not a parent will be involved in monitoring teens’ online media use? From your point of view, what forms of involvement are most useful? Least useful?
How much time does the parent spend with children? What kind of future does the parent want for the child? Is the family life stable? Is it financially weak family under societal pressures? Answers to these questions hold influences whether or not the parent’s involvement in the online activity of the child is present or not. Monitoring behind your child’s back is the least favorable in terms of the relationship of the child and the parent if the situation becomes known to the child, trust issues from the children could become impediment to a healthy family life. Probably the best way to monitor is to set soft wares is to know how many hours the child spends online on the sites that are both academic and non-academic. Being involved doesn’t mean monitoring also, it means that parents have to identify that the world nowadays are very dependent on the internet and the parent should keep the responsibility to teach the safe ways to use the internet, and issue some trust on the children on the basis that the children will have to be informed about the threats on the internet and learn to make wise choices in their lives.
5.2. Shows like “To catch a Predator” on Dateline NBC contribute to parental anxiety about online media. What elements of this FRONTLINE program are likely to increase parents” fears? What elements of the program might be reassuring?
The part where the opinion of the teenagers who are doing anonymous activities behind the parent’s back, the case of Autumn Edows and Sara, and also the case where the child is not informing about what they do on the internet and how it is affecting their mentality- the Ryan Halligan’s suicide are the factors that increase the anxiety in parents. When Ryan’s dad says ‘I clearly made a mistake putting that computer in his room. I made it to become a big part of his life. He had online relationships that were completely unknown to me’ the connotation of the words here are very negative. It gives the sense that parents should be concerned or something really out of limits of imagination might happen without their knowledge.
5.3. Evan Skinner e-mailed parents in her community after she learned about the photos taken when her son and other students went to a rock concert and got drunk. Ryan Halligan’s dad contacted the parent of another teen whose Web site was full of suicidal thoughts and feelings. Why did they do this? What are some consequences of reaching out to other parents to share concerns?
When most people were grateful that the information Evan Skinner had sent out, some were angry and asked her to not intrude on their private life. So to some people keeping their privacy is essential, because when the privacy is not kept the parents could face the truth that they maybe are not being the best parents and not doing their job properly, some people don’t like being told that they are wrong even though they realize it. When Ryan’s dad reached out the father of the child with suicidal thoughts, his prompt has been easily ignored. The fact that internet activity is totally anonymous creates a space where the children can hide their true feelings from their parents, and in case of that boy who talked with Ryan, it is possible to conclude that his father was not concerned about his behavior because it was not public, it was in the internet, done in an anonymous way.
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Margot Leysen Grade 12
Part 5: Parenting, Privacy and Control (The Child Predator Fear and Private Worlds Outside Parents’ Reach?)
5.1. In the program, we see parents who are actively monitoring teens’ online use and other parents who are not. What factors play a role in whether or not a parent will be involved in monitoring teens’ online media use? From your point of view, what forms of involvement are most useful? Least useful?
The factor that plays the biggest role in parents’ involvement is the level of distrust in the Internet of the parents. When parents are convinced that the Internet is full of predators, they will increase the amount of monitoring. Another factor that will play a role is the amount of trust the parents have in their children. Also, the age of the child using the Internet will be important. When the parents know their child has a big sense of responsibility and knows the difference between right and wrong, the parents will decrease their monitoring.
I think that monitoring the teens’ online media use should not be too strict. If you as a parent have a good relationship with your child, I would just talk to talk it about what it does on the Internet. I think you should give your child some freedom; otherwise it will just do it behind your back. The best way to avoid your child being in a dangerous Internet environment is through a good communication between the parent and the child.
5.2. Shows like “To catch a Predator” on Dateline NBC contribute to parental anxiety about online media. What elements of this FRONTLINE program are likely to increase parents” fears? What elements of the program might be reassuring?
Programs like this show only the negative side of online usage. They interview only parents with very strong, negative views of the Internet. The parents who are viewing this program will only remember the extreme examples causing their fears of the Internet to increase. Also, FRONTLINE interviews an author and a woman who has a PhD in online communication. This may seem like they know exactly the dangers of the Internet so what they say is totally accurate. But these people may have adjusted what they are saying so that it fits in the message of the program.
5.3. Evan Skinner e-mailed parents in her community after she learned about the photos taken when her son and other students went to a rock concert and got drunk. Ryan Halligan’s dad contacted the parent of another teen whose Web site was full of suicidal thoughts and feelings. Why did they do this? What are some consequences of reaching out to other parents to share concerns?
The parents contacted other parents to protect the children. As a parent it is their job to take care of them so by contacting the other parents their safety maintained. Some of the consequences may be that the children do not trust their parents completely since they went behind their back to contact other parents. Another consequence might be that the child does not like the parent at that moment since he or she might make the child look ‘uncool’ because his or her parent took away all ‘the cool pictures’.
Part 5: Parenting, Privacy and Control (The Child Predator Fear and Private Worlds Outside Parents’ Reach?)
5.1. In the program, we see parents who are actively monitoring teens’ online use and other parents who are not. What factors play a role in whether or not a parent will be involved in monitoring teens’ online media use? From your point of view, what forms of involvement are most useful? Least useful?
How much time does the parent spend with children? What kind of future does the parent want for the child? Is the family life stable? Is it financially weak family under societal pressures? Answers to these questions hold influences whether or not the parent’s involvement in the online activity of the child is present or not.
Monitoring behind your child’s back is the least favorable in terms of the relationship of the child and the parent if the situation becomes known to the child, trust issues from the children could become impediment to a healthy family life.
Probably the best way to monitor is to set soft wares is to know how many hours the child spends online on the sites that are both academic and non-academic. Being involved doesn’t mean monitoring also, it means that parents have to identify that the world nowadays are very dependent on the internet and the parent should keep the responsibility to teach the safe ways to use the internet, and issue some trust on the children on the basis that the children will have to be informed about the threats on the internet and learn to make wise choices in their lives.
5.2. Shows like “To catch a Predator” on Dateline NBC contribute to parental anxiety about online media. What elements of this FRONTLINE program are likely to increase parents” fears? What elements of the program might be reassuring?
The part where the opinion of the teenagers who are doing anonymous activities behind the parent’s back, the case of Autumn Edows and Sara, and also the case where the child is not informing about what they do on the internet and how it is affecting their mentality- the Ryan Halligan’s suicide are the factors that increase the anxiety in parents. When Ryan’s dad says ‘I clearly made a mistake putting that computer in his room. I made it to become a big part of his life. He had online relationships that were completely unknown to me’ the connotation of the words here are very negative. It gives the sense that parents should be concerned or something really out of limits of imagination might happen without their knowledge.
5.3. Evan Skinner e-mailed parents in her community after she learned about the photos taken when her son and other students went to a rock concert and got drunk. Ryan Halligan’s dad contacted the parent of another teen whose Web site was full of suicidal thoughts and feelings. Why did they do this? What are some consequences of reaching out to other parents to share concerns?
When most people were grateful that the information Evan Skinner had sent out, some were angry and asked her to not intrude on their private life. So to some people keeping their privacy is essential, because when the privacy is not kept the parents could face the truth that they maybe are not being the best parents and not doing their job properly, some people don’t like being told that they are wrong even though they realize it. When Ryan’s dad reached out the father of the child with suicidal thoughts, his prompt has been easily ignored. The fact that internet activity is totally anonymous creates a space where the children can hide their true feelings from their parents, and in case of that boy who talked with Ryan, it is possible to conclude that his father was not concerned about his behavior because it was not public, it was in the internet, done in an anonymous way.
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