I have mentioned on several occasions that I have an 8-year-old daughter and I like to talk/investigate about education, parenting, and motherhood.

My daughter, like many children of this new age, has been drawn to the idea of ​​making videos to post on YouTube, which for me is a resounding NO, non-negotiable in any way. I've explained to her in several simple ways the risks of exposing her identity online and that what she posts online is open for anyone on this planet to see—good and bad. Her desire to post videos has lessened somewhat, although she occasionally mentions her interest. I tell her she can make videos, but only for family viewing.

The Tuttle Twins have an episode in the third season that talks about cybersecurity (God bless the people responsible for this cartoon). That episode is very good, as are all of them, because they talk about important topics that no other program dares to.

Since we arrived in Venezuela, my daughter has been watching my mom play ludo on an app called "parchis," so she wanted to download that game too because she thought it was fun. This app has the unique feature that you can chat with any player who connects to the same game (as well as many other games). The thing is, yesterday while my daughter was playing, someone wrote to her through the game asking her where she was from. She replied "Colombia." She came running to me to tell me that someone had written to her about the game and that she answered that because she could be "a bad person." Then she told me that she felt uncomfortable and wanted to uninstall the app, which she did.

She's just getting started on the internet; she's only had her tablet for six months. The only online game she's downloaded is Pokémon. It has a chat, but it's general, and we always tell her not to post messages there. She's never used Roblox or Minecraft, or any of the popular games.

Many parents believe their children are safe in their rooms with their tablets and unlimited internet, but nothing could be further from the truth. Well, regarding this topic, I'm pretty sure most of you here at SN are more experts than anyone I know in real life, and that's why I'd love to read your advice, ideas, and recommendations. How do you deal with your children and the internet? This isn't a dilemma our parents had to go through.