Protecting your teenage children

This Christmas time, I managed to catch up with few close friends in Singapore. Clayton and myself were invited to Judy's for dinner and we had a wonderful time.

I knew the family for many years now and I could still remember how I used to babysit Judy's children - Evangeline and Eugene when they were young children. It was quite a change now that Evangeline is a 18 year old teenager. She has grown to be a confident, intelligent, elegant and beautiful young lady. With all the knowledge of a Singaporean teen, I constantly go to her for shopping ideas and town directions. She is also my first teacher when I began my first blog!

It is not easy being a teenager these days. The advancement of technology has changed the way teenagers mature and grown too! Do a survey and which teenager is not exposed to the worldwide web and been part of this internet revolution.

Being a parent to today's teenager is even tougher. How do you make sure your teenage child is not surfing the sites they won't supposed to? I recall a friend of mine whose parents would not allow any use of internet in the home after 10pm - for the fear that the children (they are between 13 -16!) would surf pornographic sites! I thought there was a little extreme.

Nowadays, parents can installer a keystroke loggerin their home PCs to monitor their teenage children's activities on the computer. I am not encouraging parents to 'spy' on their children but installing a keystroke recorder can actually keep them out of danger or trouble. There are lots of sexual perverts in the internet preying on their next victims.

As parents, we need to protect our growing children. We don't own them neither can we control them, but we can definitely do our part to help and educate them in the best of our ability during our time here on earth.