Tonight I watched a national news source cover Attorney General Bondi's press briefing about the many child predators recently arrested.  She repeated the need to monitor who your children are conversing with over the social media.  She stressed that very, very frequently a child believes they are communicating with another child when in fact it is a predator stalking them.  This news segment has me quite worried and I need to ask... who on this site is stalking ME!

 

oe

I'm stalking Glenn he just doesn't know it(oops cat's out of the bag now!)

I have three daughters who I care for deeply and want to keep safe. I also have no interest in living in fear and paranoia, as an unfortunate number of my friends do.

 

My wife and I have done a few things that have helped us create an environment that works our family:

1. I have conversations with my kids about what appropriate interactions with other people look like regarding conversation topics, physical contact, etc. We ask them certain questions periodically to help us gauge whether they've been in environments that have made them uncomfortable or where they may have been exposed to damaging content or behaviors. 

2. We talk about their conscience/intuition and its role in keeping them safe and the importance of listening to it. Most kids don't understand the danger of ignoring your "gut". Our kids (hopefully) do. 

3. We don't allow them to have social media accounts or unsupervised internet access of any kind. These are privileges that they will earn when we feel they're trustworthy enough to handle them responsibly, not inalienable rights endowed by the Creator. 

4. No sleepovers. Sorry, not sorry. 

 

There's more, but ultimately, this has worked for us. To my knowledge, our kids have stayed safe and my wife and I are able to sleep at night. 

 

one of my fishing buddies is a policeman.  he is tasked with hunting child predators.  he gets online and pretends he is a young girl.   so crazy.

 

he has the lingo down perfectly. 

2 hours ago, JackstrawIII said:

 

4. No sleepovers. Sorry, not sorry. 

 

 

I believe I said this the first week my daughter was born. I dont care who's feelings get hurt or who is mad at me or how well we "know" the other family. 

19 hours ago, Darth-Baiter said:

one of my fishing buddies is a policeman.  he is tasked with hunting child predators.  he gets online and pretends he is a young girl.   so crazy.

 

he has the lingo down perfectly. 

May God bless that man and keep him safe.

On 5/7/2025 at 7:53 PM, OkobojiEagle said:

 I need to ask... who on this site is stalking ME!

 

oe

Stalkers beware !

I'm a big fan of Ted Nuggent philosophy 😂

1. Teach your kids about the safe usage of the internet and social media. You can try to ban it, but you are doing them a disservice. It isn’t going anywhere. It is like alcohol/firearms/reproduction. 
2. Talk to them about their conversations with adults, be it teachers, coaches, parents, etc.  You don’t need a transcript but it helps assess if anything is weird. If you think anything is weird, ask about it in a non-accusatory/angry/Nugent(😀)way. 
3. Trust them unless they give you a good reason not to, and then work back to trusting them (this goes for most humans). Most of us were idiots in youth. Those that weren’t were pretty boring (😀). Having them scared to tell you things is counterproductive.

4. We do sleepovers, but I don’t have daughters. 
 

Try to teach them how to do things responsibly, and be there to help if things don’t go right.  We have a ‘no questions asked no reprisals’ if he needs me to come get him from any situation. 

The world is a big scary place, but somehow humans are expanding…This went deep quick. 

I am only stalking @TnRiver46 and @T-Billy

There's a couple of y'all that I pay special attention to. I ain't saying which two.

3 hours ago, VolFan said:

1. Teach your kids about the safe usage of the internet and social media. You can try to ban it, but you are doing them a disservice. It isn’t going anywhere. It is like alcohol/firearms/reproduction. 
2. Talk to them about their conversations with adults, be it teachers, coaches, parents, etc.  You don’t need a transcript but it helps assess if anything is weird. If you think anything is weird, ask about it in a non-accusatory/angry/Nugent(😀)way. 
3. Trust them unless they give you a good reason not to, and then work back to trusting them (this goes for most humans). Most of us were idiots in youth. Those that weren’t were pretty boring (😀). Having them scared to tell you things is counterproductive.

4. We do sleepovers, but I don’t have daughters. 
 

Try to teach them how to do things responsibly, and be there to help if things don’t go right.  We have a ‘no questions asked no reprisals’ if he needs me to come get him from any situation. 

The world is a big scary place, but somehow humans are expanding…This went deep quick. 

I am only stalking @TnRiver46 and @T-Billy

Sound advice. ☝️ I'm off for ten days starting tomorrow. Hopefully I'll have plenty of big muskie pics for ya this coming week. My guide buddy and his clients boated several upper 40's this week.

15 hours ago, T-Billy said:

Sound advice. ☝️ I'm off for ten days starting tomorrow. Hopefully I'll have plenty of big muskie pics for ya this coming week. My guide buddy and his clients boated several upper 40's this week.

What they said ⬆️