Kids will use e-mail to communicate with their parents, but it's seen as very stodgy.

FORBES: Just Speechless

The Family Planning Association runs Speakeasy courses helping parents to communicate with their children about difficult subjects like growing up, relationships and sex.

BBC: Older fathers: what's behind the trend?

Idit Harel, CEO of MaMaMedia, a popular children's Web site with 250, 000 registered members, says many parents today are ill-equipped to communicate with their children about the Internet, because they did not grow up with it.

CNN: Most older kids surf unsupervised