Protect your children and teens on social networks

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Posted: 08/22/2011

As children and teens head back to class, then most of them will be gaining new friends. 

But those new relationships will not just stay in the classroom; many of them will extend to online.

Facebook and Twitter is the new way for adolescents to stay in contact with each other, but the social networks pose a risk for cyberbullying, contact with sexual predators, and exposure to pornographic material.

Tamara Schmitz offers some tips for parents to protect their kids in her article "Online Parenting."

Click here to read more.

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