John Palfrey » Lenore Skenazy http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey From the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:16:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ NPR’s Talk of the Nation on Online Safety http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/05/06/nprs-talk-of-the-nation-on-online-safety/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2009/05/06/nprs-talk-of-the-nation-on-online-safety/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 14:14:41 +0000 palfrey http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/?p=1265 NPR’s ToTN ran a piece yesterday on Online Safety that references lots of good data and the Internet Safety Technical Task Force report. Guests included three experts on this topic: Lenore Skenazy (author of Free Range Kids), Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, and Janis Wolak (UNH). It is rare that one hears such a nuanced conversation about the fact that 1 in 7 youth receive an online solicitation — both a scary notion on its face but also something that needs to be understood in context.

I was most impressed by the parents who called in to the show and their level of knowledge and sophistication about how to help their kids be safe online. It’s such a complicated issue, but one where common sense shared with kids can go a very long way, as these parents demonstrate.

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