Kids Online & How To Do It Right
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 8:21AM At the opening of this episode you will hear a promo for The Boom Effect, an auction and fund raiser for fellow dad and good friend Tee Morris who recently lost his wife and will be raising his little girl known as "Sonic Boom" on his own. The Cast of Dads encourages you to donate and help in any way you can to assist in making sure this little girl has what she needs as she grows up. Tee, our thoughts are with you buddy!
Topics discussed on this episode:
- Kids getting on Facebook (Under 13 not allowed)
- COPA Law
- Oh Snap It's Violet
- Should Facebook have more parental controls?
- Teaching children online values
- The Next Great Generation
- The digital trail we all leave online
- Social Media Guidelines
- Todd Defren's "Team Before Tweet"
- The Don't Be Stupid Rule (Olympic snowboarder pictures)
- Be Upfront
- Camera that captures your life
- School Laptop webcam privacy case
- Digital Nation
- Open conversations on mobile phones
- Candid Camera
- PleaseRobMe.com
- Blog Design - roll your own vs. hiring a designer
- The hotness that is the new Dad Labs
- Dadsourcing
- Our search for guests (e-mail us if interested)
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Cast of Dads is a group of podcasting and blogging dads who gather to gab about fatherhood. The cast of dads includes C.C. Chapman, Jeffrey Sass, Max Kalehoff, Michael Sheehan, and Brad Powell, who collectively represent 13 kids from the youngest of babies to full grown adults. Each of them brings a unique perspective to being a father.
Reader Comments (4)
Really enjoyed your discussions on internet security. I recently interviewed Ben Halpert on the topic. Ben is a security expert and is launching a non-profit focused on teaching parents to educate their kids from the pre-school ages. You can view the video on DAD-O-Matic
Interesting chat. Would like to hear you directly address a question that has been quite the hot topic in our household lately: "Should parents be friends with their teenagers on FaceBook?".
Totally agree that it's the parent's responsibility and not that of Facebook to patrol usage. All parents need to have accounts on the social media sites that their kids frequent. You're not going to hand your kid the car keys if you don't know how to drive yourself, are you?
I hit on similar topics on Facebook Dad .
@David,
That is a great discussion point. In fact, it doesn't seem to stop with kids. My mom recently said that she joined Facebook. We both agreed that it would be a bit odd to have us friend each other. We have our relationship in other areas so we don't feel the need to extend it to the public/social networking space.
Obviously, friending your kids on FB brings up an interesting topic that we have discussed in a few of our episodes, should you be "friends" with your kids. This is a very personal topic. I'm of the opinion that you should be parents first and generate the nurturing respect that you get with that relationship. The parent-child relationship is sacred. Friend-friend relationships are different. If you "friend" your child on Facebook, you blur those lines (but it might be good for monitoring what they are doing - again this depends on their age).
@Facebook Dad,
Thanks for the comment and I like your analogy of the car keys. This whole concept is going to get even more difficult as social networks become yet more prevalent. Buckle your seatbelts!
Thanks for listening!
-Michael