Teen Quake!...Parents Beware

Teenagers and the youth have taken to the Internet in their millions creating the single biggest group of users on the World Wide Web today.

Parents have been left behind as their children set trends on the web, adapting to new technologies much more quickly and becoming web savvy early on in life.

Opportunities abound on the web and......
it's only sensible that parent's guide their children and show them the path to maximize their time online. After all, their children spend more hours online than at any other place. 

Showing youth how to make money online and how to start saving early for life is the one thing that will be received well by a majority of the youth who spend most of their time online. They are being asked to use technology and media they love and know how to use, whatever else they are asked to do online can only be fun. 

STARTING POINT

Parents themselves need to be aware of the opportunities that abound online in order to help their children to take advantage of those opportunities.

A good starting point would be to buy and read books making money online and Internet money making opportunities. There are millions of books out there on this subject with a very wide range of prices. Parents can look for cheap, easy to understand books, which they can read and then pass on to their children to read.

Some of the best and affordable books on the subject of making money online include 25 ways to Make Money Online: Your Complete Guide to Legitimate Online Income and How to Make $200 A Day Online Even If You're Bankrupt, Broke, Jobless or Even Homeless.

Alternatively, parents can search and get guides online on how to make money on the web. There are also hundreds of thousands of websites, blogs, forums and articles on this subject. The challenge for the parent lies in identifying the best, easy to understand guides and ultimately to choose legitimate, paying and viable businesses for them and their youth.

It's important to note that the youth might not be too enthusiastic at first due to the kind of work involved in setting up and running a successful business online. Youth are known to have a short attention span and want quick results. They are bound to give up within a short time if not properly motivated.

Parents need to not only motivate them but also give them assurances that there is actually income to be made online. Giving them a few examples of other youth who have succeeded online might go a way long to getting them to focus on the online ventures.

SET TARGETS 


Parents need to sit with their youth and help them come up with achievable targets. The web has so many distractions, without a solid strategy and set targets, the youth are bound to fail in their quest to make money online.


Identify the type of money making venture your children are interested in and set goals to be achieved every time they go online. It's important to plan to the smallest detail, to avoid wasting precious time once they are online and to make them focused on the task at hand.


We will be posting here tips on how to make money online, links to online money making opportunities that are suitable for teens/youth and much more. 


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