Danica McKellar Quotes

When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.

You can't regulate what these kids are being exposed to on the Internet. It's so way out of control. All you can do is just try to talk to your own kids.

As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.

No doubt there are dangers involved in letting children go online unsupervised.

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

The Internet is a great information tool, and can be a place where kids learn, but we must remember that when kids are online, they are in public.

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.

It's a dilemma for every modern parent - how to keep children safe on social media without monitoring their every post.

My children aren't allowed on social media.

Children will be children, and they're inquisitive. If teenagers want to know what's out there, they'll look, but there are things that aren't for their eyes.

The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day.

One of the most important accomplishments of the Caucus is raising awareness with law enforcement and communities nationwide on the issues of child safety and Internet safety.

Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.

We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.

I don't think parents can protect their kids in this media-nut culture.

Most of our children have access to Internet-accessible technology, yet most of us are actually not paying much attention to what they're doing online.

I think it's just so important that parents actually really study the apps on the phones and figure out what's going on.

People in China have a range of strong views about how children should be protected when they go online and whether the responsibility should be with the government, with parents, or somebody else.

Parents can't monitor what you are doing on Snapchat.

I don't want pictures of my kids anywhere. I don't tweet pictures of my kids. I don't put them on any social media. I definitely do like to keep some privacy that way. And mostly, it's fear-based; people are crazy.

Parents aren't clamoring for cell-phone companies to monitor their kids. Parents don't want to see what their kids are really like, but MySpace makes that really easy.

No one's arguing that the Internet is evil. But talking about strangers is another conversation you have to have with your kids.

When it comes to letting kids out into dark alleys, we understand that they have things to steal. We need to understand that in online life, too.

Kids are coming online and connecting at a pace that's faster than their physical maturation process. Would you ever imagine that you'd have to talk to your kid about phishing before you're talking to him about the birds and the bees?

I'm concerned about my children being so much in the media.