When and How to Talk to Your Child about Online Predators
By Melissa Maypole on 04-29-2013
If you had to name the top three most painful and uncomfortable topics to talk to your kids about, I'd be willing to bet two of them would be: sex and evil. It sucks to have to tell your kids that there are bad people in the world, and as for the birds and the bees talk, it just seems unnatural to have to breech that topic with your 12-year old. Unfortunately, with more and more parents reporting that their kids' childhood is pretty much over by the age of 12, we may need to have these discussions earlier than we thought.
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