More moms on monitoring

It was great to hear from four more parents after last week's feature, "A mom on monitoring," uploaded: one who basically agreed with Heather's approach, three who decidedly didn't. The three who didn't - Ann in Minnesota, Kathy in Connecticut, and Nancy in Oregon- are a youth librarian, an educator, and a children's online-safety expert, respectively. As Ann puts it, we definitely hit "a vital nerve" in the online-parenting community - not a bad thing, right?! Here's this week's issue of my newsletter, with their views. [Don't miss Nancy's helpful "three stages of monitoring" (Nancy Willard is director of the Center for Safe & Responsible Internet Use).]