ParentingTodaysKids.com, powered by SpectorSoft Corporation, the leader in computer and mobile device monitoring and analysis software, today announced Tommy Jordan ? who made news by shooting his daughter?s laptop and then chronicling the saga in a video online ? has joined parentingtodayskids.com as a regular columnist. Lisa Shaw, Editor of ParentingTodaysKids.com, described the association with Jordan as an ?editorial coup,? adding: Parents really need to wake up and start paying attention to what their kids are doing online. Just last month, we all learned about the convicted pedophile who posed as a teen pop star online in an attempt to get teen girls to send him nude pictures of themselves. Jordan, a seemingly mild-mannered social media guru, Internet programmer, and owner of an IT firm, also wears the hat of a concerned parent of a teen. Most of the time spent with his kids is either ?out in the back yard? gardening, building new toys or projects in the woodshop, or teaching them how to shoot rifles, pistols, and even bow and arrow. [...] that?s why when, at a time he was growing concerned with online safety and his daughter balked at his parental authority, he found himself in his backyard, pistol in hand, repeatedly spewing frustration and bullets at the laptop computer. Maybe he realized that parental control buttons serve only to make parents think they've done our duties to protect their kids ? lulling us into a stupor. While some parents disapproved of his methods, many agreed they are handicapped and ill-equipped to keep predators out of their kids? computers, phones, and other handheld devices. [...] Mr. Jordan has embarked upon an eye-opening education about all things online and safety. ?I felt useless, unable to protect her ? it was overwhelming,? Jordan said. [...] I?ve learned that I?m not alone. Things like full names, home addresses, phone numbers, parents name and phone numbers, exact time and dates that they are going out and exact locations, details on when vacations are coming up and when the house will be empty. They can arm themselves with very specific and personal information and then ?bump into? your kid at their school or friend?s house or local hangout and know all the right words and have all the right phrases to win your kids? trust. Shaw, a mother of five and Harvard MBA, is SpectorSoft's Senior Director of Child Online Safety where she assists in driving innovation and evangelizing the need to protect children in today's digital world. SpectorSoft monitoring solutions keep children safe online by providing parents the tools to monitor and record their children?s computer, online and mobile device activity. More than 900,000 consumers and 160,000 businesses, government organizations, schools, and law enforcement agencies have purchased SpectorSoft products to help protect children, manage risk, prevent data loss and address compliance mandates.
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