Please take a minute to relax and please take time to remember children now days are more aware in general from when we were kids. since t hey are growing up in the computer age unlike many of us. anyone over the age of 20 computers were coming in to residential (home instead of for offices)settings when we were already adults so computer classes and computer safety and awareness was not a part of our normal school corriculum and or information. Children in schools are being taught to look out for those cyber preditors out for cyber action of convincing them to meet with them. so its only natural that one of the few times the child manages to get on line unsupervised they imitate the behavior they are warned about just to see what would happen. With my age group it was doing smoke so what did everyone try at least once to see what the big deal was - snitch a cigarette and find a place to try it.

These days 10 year olds are getting their monthlies and going to movies with their friends calling it dating. todays ten year olds have sex education classes and so on as a part of the health and physical education corriculum because their bodys do mature so much faster then kids used to when we were all kids. So Be prepared you are going to see on the saved stuff things that didn't go on when you were 10 years old.

If this was me I would take a minute to relax and then print off the saved stuff and take it to therapy with me if I could not trust myself with discussing it with my child yet.

when I was ready and in control so I would not scare my child by over reacting I would sit him down and explain that the behavior that was done on the computer of looking for cyber action was not what you would consider good computer behaviour and because of that you will now have the parental code and a timer (most internet access now has settings so that parents can limit when and how long and what sites the children can visit on line.)and from now on when you are not on line the computer will be locked. (there are alot of free securty programs that the person has to log on to the computer with a user name and password in order to use it. I have mine set up that way because I take care of children from time to time and they all know how to get on line. so I "lock it down" when I am not in the room and or close enough to monitor whats going on.