Parenting Your Net Generation Child or Adolescent Navigating the
online social networking world is a daunting task for most
parents. Thankfully, recent research has shown that parents can
greatly influence their child's experience online. Dr. Larry
Rosen, Professor of Psychology at California State University,
Dominguez Hills and author of Me, MySpace, and I: Parenting the
Net Generation, has found that certain parenting styles can be
very effective in parent-child negotiations surrounding MySpace
and other social networking sites. Read on for tips and tricks
to help make the battle over the online social networking world
more productive and less stressful. First, and foremost, parents
should learn and adopt an “Authoritative” parenting style. This
means that you, as a parent, set rules and limits on your
child’s behavior, but you do so while consulting with your child
and listening carefully and attentively to his/her thoughts and
ideas. My recommendation is to have regular short family
discussions dealing w