The Secret to Raising Smart Kids writes "A new study by Dafna Lemish from the parish of connection at Tel Aviv teaching mash has found that there is an pint-sized gap between what parents think their travail are doing online and what is really happening. 'The data tell us that parents don't know what their kids are doing,' says Lemish. The study found that 30% of labor between the ages of 9 and 18 delete the search history from their browsers in an attempt to protect their privacy from their parents, that 73% of the drop one reported giving out personal word* online while the parents of the same labor believed that only 4% of their propagation did so, and that 36% of the travail admitted to meeting with a stranger they had met online while fewer than 9% of the parents knew that their proliferation had been engaging in such risky behavior. Lemish advises that parents should give their lying-in the tools to be literate w3 users and most importantly, to talk to their children. 'The child needs similar tools that teach them to be [wary] of dangers in the park, the mall or wherever. The same rules in the real world apply online as well.'"

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