Any good kids forum?

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Does anyone know of any good Catholic forum for kids? My niece was penpals, but there are not many good options.
 
Due to the nature of the internet, I would not reccomend children using any internet forums - unless mom or dad is sitting right beside them at every log in.

If your neice wishes to exchange letters with other children, I would suggest contacting the Missions office of your local Diocese - they may have resources for children’s homes/schools run by Catholic missions where there are also kids looking for pen pals 👍
 
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Due to the nature of the internet, I would not reccomend children using any internet forums - unless mom or dad is sitting right beside them at every log in.

If your neice wishes to exchange letters with other children, I would suggest contacting the Missions office of your local Diocese - they may have resources for children’s homes/schools run by Catholic missions where there are also kids looking for pen pals 👍
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I agree totally, and that is why her mother was against it, but my niece has the bad influence at her dad’s house with teenage stepsisters who go on myspace and other sites not age appropriate for my niece. My sister has told her not to go on those sites and she just wants a penpal of another girl or talk to other girls. I did find a site called 4preteengirls and it is christian based. My sister would rather her be on this site than the ones her friends are on or step sister. She will be monitoring her when she writes.

I am so glad my dh has no interest in the internet stuff. They could get into pornography even by accident. I remember googling the show Seventh Heaven and wanted to know when it would come on TV. I got pornography. My niece has already gotten pornography at school. The teacher gave them assignments and she put in the web address her teacher gave her and got naked women. She called her teacher to her computer and he was surprised. He gave her another topic to say the least. She has internet access at school too, but they are watched by their teacher.
 
I haven’t found a safe kids forum yet but to keep my kiddo safe online I use this stuff…

I allow my dd to blog on freewebs, strangers haven’t wandered by yet but I monitor it daily. On myspace and such people are more likely to show up and send ads and ask to be friends and you have no clue who they are.
 
Remind the mother of this girl that seeing pornography is not the only danger. There is a real danger to young people in forums/chat rooms. People can go on, pretend to be another kid, become “friends”, build up trust. Then, they move to more private forms of communication - email, phonecalls, IM. Child reveals personal information and the sicko on the the other end turns up at little Amber’s soccer practice. It happens, it happens EVERY DAY.

I’d sooner have an open sewer pipe in my living room than internet connection that kids used in any way unsupervised.
 
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Remind the mother of this girl that seeing pornography is not the only danger. There is a real danger to young people in forums/chat rooms. People can go on, pretend to be another kid, become “friends”, build up trust. Then, they move to more private forms of communication - email, phonecalls, IM. Child reveals personal information and the sicko on the the other end turns up at little Amber’s soccer practice. It happens, it happens EVERY DAY.

I’d sooner have an open sewer pipe in my living room than internet connection that kids used in any way unsupervised.
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Yes, this is one of the other concerns that she has told her dd. She is too young and is so innocent because she said she is not stupid and won’t email people privately or talk to men or boys on the forum. Like I said, she thinks she knows it all and doesn’t understand the danger out there, but yes, my sister did tell her of sexual predators and others like them. Unfortunately, she has the influence of the teens at her dad’s house. Her dad allows internet access without supervision and he is a cop and should know better. This is why this teenage stepsister is into some really ugly and dark things on her myspace account. My niece likes her and trust her. There is nothing my sister can do about that. She has already talked to her ex about the website and if he could watch her, but he yelled at her and said no and that when they are with him, he will deal with them as he sees fit. He finds nothing wrong with internet access for a 10 yr. old undervised.

All we do is teach her what is right and wrong and tell her to ask herself if Jesus would be watching whatever they watch together with their teenage stepsister. This same teenage stepsister, made a utube account for my niece and her own sister and put their ages as 15 when both are 10. That is why my niece wants so badly to be a part of a chat room or forum. I hope this christian one turns out to be great. She has to remember not to put any personal information on the forum, but my sister will be watching. She is not to happy about that either, but my sister told her take it or leave it.:rolleyes: She took it.
 
I posted a thread with tips for letting kids be online.

Also kiddonet.com used to have a kids chat room. (I haven’t checked lately) it was kept safe by only allowing people to talk in preset phrases. like if you wnated to say Hey What’s up? you had to choose it from a list of greetings.
 
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