Keeping a parent in the room when a child is online

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Keeping a parent in the room when a child is online

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The best advice I can give to keep kids and tweens sage when they go online is to teach your children there should be a parent in the room. So this applies to desktop and laptop computers. It's harder with cellphones when kids are walking around with mobile devices. But I like telling my kids that if I'm in the room or their dad's in the room, they can be online. The reason is simple; we're the best parental controls around. We're going to glance over and see what they're doing on the screen. We're able to check and see where they happen to wind up online. I love a good parental control. The problem is when my kids go to someone else's house I have no idea what parental controls are in place. So if they know the rule, that one of us needs to be in the room and we're not there, they're not online.

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Cara Natterson, MD

Pediatrician & Author

Cara Natterson, MD has treated thousands of children and guided their parents as well. She was a partner at Tenth Street Pediatrics in Santa Monica, California, a large group practice serving infants, children and teenagers. She now runs Worry Proof Consulting, the first of its kind pediatric practice that offers parents open-ended time to review everything from medical questions and biology basics to child development and parenting issues. Cara is also the author of several books on parenting and child health. She has a unique ability to translate cutting edge research into understandable terms for parents and their kids. More recently, Cara’s consulting has extended beyond individual families to include fortune 500 companies seeking expert advice on safety issues, child health, and crisis management.

Cara has appeared on television, in print, and on the web. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and she trained in pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco. Cara is a Board certified pediatrician and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. And anyone who knows her knows that Cara is, by nature, one of the most risk-averse people on earth. She lives in California with her husband and two children.

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