Protecting your kids from digital dangers

By News Staff

Posted February 2, 2012 6:58 pm.

This article is more than 5 years old.

Keep the lines of communication open, one expert advises. “You don’t have to understand the technology to help your kids,” Pearl Rimer, of the BOOST child abuse prevention and intervention network, told CityNews.

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