Review: “Dirt E-Secrets Of An Internet Kid”

“Dirt E-Secrets Of An Internet Kid” is the title of Vanessa VanPetten’s new e-book. She is a 22-year-old blogger and published author who writes about parenting from a teen perspective. In this book Vanessa succinctly details the various ways kids use and abuse the internet. And like a socially responsible critic, she also supplies practical solutions for how parents can deal with the challenges that come with raising an internet kid.

The book includes practical advice and tools for you to use when establishing rules for technology for your child. She also explains some of the dangers to kids in the online world and how to teach your children to deal with challenges like: online gossip, cyber bullying, predators, and identity theft. Vanessa claims that her golden nugget is her explanation of how kids know how to trick parents so they can’t track their activities online. But I think the golden nugget is the opportunity it gives parents to enter this internet world with their children and continue to parent kids in what could be the equivalent of “Lord of the Flies” in cyberspace.

Internet kids are already “global citizens” and are practicing public writing techniques that in previous generations were only required of published authors. Kids’ experience with the internet provides parents with a marvelous opportunity to be a positive influence on the building of a child’s online reputation that will follow them for the rest of their lives.

I have had the pleasure of reading this e-book cover to cover and think it is a must read for any parent whose child is showing interest in the internet. It is a quick and easy read and I feel that no matter how much you think you know about the internet, there will be tips in this book that will help you be a better parent to your budding cyber-citizen.

The e-book is $10 and can be downloaded at www.OnTeensToday.com