Protecting Kids Online

I believe we are.

I'm a big fan of right tech at the right time based on what we know about our kids.

Your first path that you were on before with stranger danger, which was sort of the white van, puppy, and candy sort of thing that, you know, the message that we got.

That was the message we got, and parents also knew that the chances of that were pretty low because the instances in which we were going to either be out of sight, out of a community that was generally more jointly caring for kids when you and I were kids than we have today.

Again, there are a lot of things bringing down the risk of that happening.

The problem today is they're not, we're not in parks and we're not out in unmonitored places.

We're deceivingly safe in our bedroom with access to 15 digital parks that we access from the bed in our room.

The way in which people we don't know have access to our children has changed and has grown exponentially.

Yeah.

That's just a reality.

So again, yeah, back to the behaviors.

We don't teach them what to look for.

We teach them for what they sound like and what they ask for, and we go through phrases.

We have a post on our site called Tricky People.

It's not even strangers 'cause they sometimes even look and feel, especially with AI and deepfakes, kind of like people you know, and so you're looking for certain interactions.

Are they asking you to go to Discord after you've been on Roblox? Okay, that's a red flag, these kinds of things.

So those are the realities.

And on a device, Chris, that we ask our kids to do homework on, an iPad or a Chromebook even, is it possible that strangers, kids are don't, you know, that people that our kids don't know could interact with our children in that device which is meant for education? Yes.

So the necessity for our kids to know how to handle, right, in a world where they are using technology, how to handle these situations, absolutely.

Again, because the access points are that much greater.

The history book you and I carried around, it didn't have 10% of the content being pornographic, access to people we didn't know-

Yeah

... and content related to entertaining things that we loved, like baseball cards and Mad Magazine.

Like, that wasn't in our history book, yet that is every Chromebook and iPad that we [laughs] ask our kids-

Yeah

I believe we are.

I'm a big fan of right tech at the right time based on what we know about our kids.

Your first path that you were on before with stranger danger, which was sort of the white van, puppy, and candy sort of thing that, you know, the message that we got.

That was the message we got, and parents also knew that the chances of that were pretty low because the instances in which we were going to either be out of sight, out of a community that was generally more jointly caring for kids when you and I were kids than we have today.

Again, there are a lot of things bringing down the risk of that happening.

The problem today is they're not, we're not in parks and we're not out in unmonitored places.

We're deceivingly safe in our bedroom with access to 15 digital parks that we access from the bed in our room.

The way in which people we don't know have access to our children has changed and has grown exponentially.

Yeah.

That's just a reality.

So again, yeah, back to the behaviors.

We don't teach them what to look for.

We teach them for what they sound like and what they ask for, and we go through phrases.

We have a post on our site called Tricky People.

It's not even strangers 'cause they sometimes even look and feel, especially with AI and deepfakes, kind of like people you know, and so you're looking for certain interactions.

Are they asking you to go to Discord after you've been on Roblox? Okay, that's a red flag, these kinds of things.

So those are the realities.

And on a device, Chris, that we ask our kids to do homework on, an iPad or a Chromebook even, is it possible that strangers, kids are don't, you know, that people that our kids don't know could interact with our children in that device which is meant for education? Yes.

So the necessity for our kids to know how to handle, right, in a world where they are using technology, how to handle these situations, absolutely.

Again, because the access points are that much greater.

The history book you and I carried around, it didn't have 10% of the content being pornographic, access to people we didn't know-

Yeah

... and content related to entertaining things that we loved, like baseball cards and Mad Magazine.

Like, that wasn't in our history book, yet that is every Chromebook and iPad that we [laughs] ask our kids-

Yeah