Parental Controls

Want to give your kids online access, but within limits? The devil, it turns out, is in the details

I'd like to apologize to the man with whom my child was chatting the other day--the one who likes to wear a bra and panties. The whole thing was my fault, and I feel just sick about it. Not that anything truly bad happened, at least not to my 10-year-old. I suspect that the male stranger who likes to wear women's underthings suffered the most in this particular virtual encounter.

It happened in an AOL chat room. I, of all people, should have known enough to limit my daughter's travels online to the well-prescribed routes--the kid-friendly places that have sprung up...

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