Sarah Steele Quotes

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.

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

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

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?

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.

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.

Internet safety is quite like the road safety issues when I was growing up as a child. You had clunk click advertising and the green cross man coming into schools to talk to children.

Kids listen to everything on the Internet.

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.

I worry about my grandchildren because the Internet can be brutal.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the Internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.

Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem.

Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.

The Internet opens up so many doors. It's a phenomenal tool for education but also a way for people to be scary and dangerous. We're living in a world where we can be hacked and exposed.

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

Predators will look for any way to talk to children online whether through sites like Myspace, instant messaging, or even online games.

I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'