Family Circle Article Review

Family Circle Article Review

March 2008

Source: Common Sense Media

Computer Supervision From the Parent’s View Point

I thought that this article was important to share because it gave the parent’s perspective of supervision while their children are on computer. Because while in my statistics of the children’s evaluation of supervision, students felt that 74% of the time they were unsupervised.

According to this article, it stated that parents who regularly spot check children’s use and computer activity is at 92%.

Parents who visit websites with their children is at 72%.

Those who use filters or blocking software run to 58%.

Parents who used a site recommendation from other parents is 52%.

Forty - eight percent of parents used and received sites from teachers at school.

So my thought is perhaps when children think they are not being monitored, they actually are being monitored.