Why are kids still surfing the Internet in the bedroom?

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Nov 5, 2011, 6:01:23 PM11/5/11

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According to NBC Dateline-"To Catch A Predator"

If you have children and you watched any of "Dateline's" "To Catch a Predator" series, you're scared. You have to be. And you have to wonder: Could this happen to my kids?

Well, there's one piece of advice everyone gives parents to keep their children safe from predators and all the other scary parts of the Internet -- keep the computer out of the bedroom. The advice is so common, it's now trite.

It might also be the most commonly ignored advice in parenting today. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, twice as many kids have computers in their bedrooms today as did five years ago.

Forget the bedtime story. These days, many kids go to bed, pull up the covers and just start chatting with friends online.