Catherine Oxenberg Quotes

Parents don't even know what's going on on Snapchat.

I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.

On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

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.

Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.

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.

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

Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It's so important.

I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.

When I think about it, I do start to worry about this whole social media thing. It does make me uncomfortable; kids should be out, living their lives, getting out and enjoying themselves.

In parenthood, there's so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there's so much fear around technology.

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.

Learning what's happening in children's digital life is the best way to ensure that they're safe.

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

if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.

Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult.

My marriage started to go badly wrong after I had my second son.

That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

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.

My kids seem to be more mature and older than I am now somehow. They've gotten ahead of me somehow. But they're very patient with me.

I have three boys. Sometimes my wife and I really have to battle to keep video games from encroaching.