That said, parents do also have access to an online dashboard where they can monitor kids' social media activity and receive progress reports.
Consumer advocates also advise parents to closely monitor kids' use of Web sites and chat rooms, which may ask for personal information on the registration screen, and to educate children about keeping personal information private.
Graff calls for parents as well as YouTube to more closely monitor kids' use of the site.
A similar example is that when I was a middle-school principal, I struggled to get teachers into the halls to help monitor kids.
Logging out of Netflix may be useful in order to monitor kids' viewing habits or if you want to erase your Netflix account when selling or trading in your Wii.
Yet when they delved into the data and stripped out the quality of family relationships, the degree to which parents monitored their kids, how they spent their time together and the availability of financial resources, suddenly, the story changed.
In its current iteration, SocialShield monitors kids' picture sharing, social gaming and other social activity on networks that kids use the most (currently Facebook, Myspace and Twitter).
SocialShield, which requires that both parents and children opt-in to the service, monitors kids' picture sharing, social gaming and other social activity on networks that kids use the most (currently Facebook, Myspace and Twitter).
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