God forbid, but imagine that your kid made a terrible mistake on the internet and you knew nothing about it, until the day when someone finds those dark incidents and begins tormenting your kid at school or college!
Bullying is one the most unsavory truths that people brush under their carpets and prefer to keep mum or avoid entirely. They would rather pull their kids out of the school where they get tormented instead of tackling it head on. Now we are in no position to criticize the decision to avoid confrontation for the sake of the child's safety, but we strongly criticize parents who do not teach their kids about the dangers of the internet.
Often a child would follow a trap into a harmful website and compromise his identity and safety after divulging sensitive information. To a child, 'sensitive' is just another word, which is why parents should install cyber nanny software to dissuade kids from doing things they should not be doing. At times though, smart kids learn ways to by-pass roadblocks from seniors or peers at school, which defeats the purpose of all precautions and safeguards. Sometimes they find these safeguards very easy to overcome.
How to Raise the Bar to Diabolically Hard?
Well, the most effective way is to educate them about the risks and dangers lurking in every corner. You should not just deliver a sermon on porn and unsafe sex and those things, you need to make sure that they know their careers and lives can come under grievous threats if they do not take you seriously.
Aside from installing strong surfing-protection software, you can also persuade your kid to access internet from a common area of the house where you can keep an eye on activities. Now, kids above a certain age will dislike the idea a lot and ask for privacy, this is where you will have to put your foot down hard.
What if Your Kid Gets The Better of You?
Love or whatever, if you let your judgement be shrouded by it, your kid will get the better of you. The risks that he or she faces because of their actions are well known to us, but we fail to get them to see reason in our anxiety. Most of us stop worrying in time, while the rest of us hate to bring up a topic that flares tempers and irks teenagers into doing something foolish.
So then what is the best way out? Teenagers will be teenagers and defiant of their actions - right or wrong. Most of them will blame someone (society, government or corporate) for their misfortunes. We cannot expect them to behave rationally because they are teenagers!
Here is the last resort if all persuasion and reasoning fails.
Hire a Professional Reputation Management Firm to Clean Your Kid's Mess
Professional Reputation Management teams can take care of very serious matters with their tracking tools and reputation salvation strategies. Often businesses hire such teams to manage their reputations, but it is now becoming common for job seekers and individuals (bankers/lawyers/managers) to seek professional help with their online reputation.
We think you do not need to worry about this until you have a situation (bullying/online harassment) at hand. If someone starts posting defaming images of your kids on the internet or writes damaging content, you will have to bring in the professionals to control the damage and put things back to order.
Otherwise, it is necessary to have an online reputation check on your kid when they are ready for a significant phase of their education or career. You would not like if your kid's application to a good college gets rejected due to damning images or comments left behind by jesting (or jealous) friends.
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Bullying is one the most unsavory truths that people brush under their carpets and prefer to keep mum or avoid entirely. They would rather pull their kids out of the school where they get tormented instead of tackling it head on. Now we are in no position to criticize the decision to avoid confrontation for the sake of the child's safety, but we strongly criticize parents who do not teach their kids about the dangers of the internet.
Often a child would follow a trap into a harmful website and compromise his identity and safety after divulging sensitive information. To a child, 'sensitive' is just another word, which is why parents should install cyber nanny software to dissuade kids from doing things they should not be doing. At times though, smart kids learn ways to by-pass roadblocks from seniors or peers at school, which defeats the purpose of all precautions and safeguards. Sometimes they find these safeguards very easy to overcome.
How to Raise the Bar to Diabolically Hard?
Well, the most effective way is to educate them about the risks and dangers lurking in every corner. You should not just deliver a sermon on porn and unsafe sex and those things, you need to make sure that they know their careers and lives can come under grievous threats if they do not take you seriously.
Aside from installing strong surfing-protection software, you can also persuade your kid to access internet from a common area of the house where you can keep an eye on activities. Now, kids above a certain age will dislike the idea a lot and ask for privacy, this is where you will have to put your foot down hard.
What if Your Kid Gets The Better of You?
Love or whatever, if you let your judgement be shrouded by it, your kid will get the better of you. The risks that he or she faces because of their actions are well known to us, but we fail to get them to see reason in our anxiety. Most of us stop worrying in time, while the rest of us hate to bring up a topic that flares tempers and irks teenagers into doing something foolish.
So then what is the best way out? Teenagers will be teenagers and defiant of their actions - right or wrong. Most of them will blame someone (society, government or corporate) for their misfortunes. We cannot expect them to behave rationally because they are teenagers!
Here is the last resort if all persuasion and reasoning fails.
Hire a Professional Reputation Management Firm to Clean Your Kid's Mess
Professional Reputation Management teams can take care of very serious matters with their tracking tools and reputation salvation strategies. Often businesses hire such teams to manage their reputations, but it is now becoming common for job seekers and individuals (bankers/lawyers/managers) to seek professional help with their online reputation.
We think you do not need to worry about this until you have a situation (bullying/online harassment) at hand. If someone starts posting defaming images of your kids on the internet or writes damaging content, you will have to bring in the professionals to control the damage and put things back to order.
Otherwise, it is necessary to have an online reputation check on your kid when they are ready for a significant phase of their education or career. You would not like if your kid's application to a good college gets rejected due to damning images or comments left behind by jesting (or jealous) friends.
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