Parents raising children today are internet savvy and well able to keep up with their kids in this area. Right? Wrong.
A recent survey by the Pew Research Centre in the US shows that “only 61 percent of parents check the websites their teens are visiting,” reports Naomi Schaefer Riley. “About the same number have ever checked their kids’ social-media profiles.
And it would be pretty hard for them to find out much, considering that just over half the parents have ever “friended” or followed their teens on Facebook, Twitter or other social media. And less than half have checked their teens’ text messages.
“They’re just so overwhelmed, they’re acting like ostriches,” says psychologist Wendy Mogel. The author of “Blessings of a Skinned Knee,” Mogel says that “parents who would never let their kids have ice cream for breakfast or drive… click here to read whole article and make comments