The Authority In Me: The Power of Family Life in the Network Culture - A Parent's Voice in the Cyber Wilderness

The Internet , the great home invasion of our time, makes it possible for kids to “Google” anything they think they need to know, and create a surreal “cyber reality” making the role of parents, teachers and other authority figures seem obscured, irrelevant and obsolete.

And it is truly more difficult for parents to really know what is going on in their children’s lives.

The beliefs to which our children are exposed tell them they are neither important, nor good enough unless they lower stand...