On Thursday, October 16th, Katie L. Geer was at the Village School where she graduated. The North Shore native has created a business lecturing about Internet safety. With her private business, she offers seven different talks for students in kindergarten through college tailored to each audience’s needs.

She explained that fourth to six grade students need to relearn the idea about not talking to strangers. Since strangers today can hide behind their online identity, it’s an entirely new concept to understand and practice. She explained that middle school is not too early a time to start to talk about the perils of social media.

She explained “The number-one thing is just that parents need to pay attention.” She discussed the shocking statistic that, on average, children aged 8-18 spend 7.5 hours a day on some device or piece of technology.