7-Yr-Old Confessed To Chatting Online With Strangers, So Brilliant Mom Produces Letter From “Australian Government.”

To her credit, 7-year-old Amira did come clean without prompting, telling her mother she’d chatted online with a stranger in direct defiance of the family’s “no chat rule”with unknown persons. But Sue Taher, an Australian mother of two, was so distressed that she took a rather unconventional approach to ensure it never happens again.

Grounding her or taking away her iPad would only be effective temporarily, and Taher wanted to really drive home the point that her daughter – and son – could be putting their very lives in danger with unsanctioned online activities. So instead, she took the preventative measure of drafting, on official-looking letterhead, a letter from the non-existent “Mr. Richard Mitchell”from the national “Department of Communications.â€


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In the letter, dated May 1, the fictitious Mr. Mitchell informs Amira’s parents that their daughter has been kicked offline after she was “found guilty of chatting online with strangers”and goes on to say that there “are some very nasty and dangerous people out there (men and women).”


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The letter “freaked the crap”out of Amira, Taher said. So, mission accomplished… at least until Amira realizes that Mr. Richard Mitchell with the Department of Communications is a figment of her mother’s imagination.

Taher posted publicly about the incident on Facebook in hopes of raising awareness about the dangers of electronic communication between children and strangers.


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“It’s amazing the lack of awareness parents and carers have when it comes to online chatting in the gaming work,” she said, adding other parents have requested copies of the letter since seeing the post.

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