Tips from a tech-savvy dad

Eleven-year-old "Rachel" "is a horse freak," her dad told me, "her true passion is horses." In a recent phone interview, "Tom," a tech company executive in California, told me about two less-well-known developments that he and Rachel have encountered and that other parents might want to know about. The first involved a virtual horse-care and -show site Rachel loves, the second involved what Tom called "cross-over sites" that hook kids into online porn. For more, please click to this week's SafeKids/NetFamilyNewsletter.