Immediately jumping to this kind of thinking completely ruins the will for people to get involved with these kinds of initiatives.
OP didn't even hint that they thought this could be an issue but you did and now any discussion of people involved is tainted under the potential that they may be a pedophile.
IMO, much better to progressively teach your kids about safety (online and off) and to do your best to monitor/keep track of what's going on, and ensure you have good lines of communication open with your kids and have them know that they can come to you without reprisal...
than to try and keep them in a bubble and eliminate all possibility they could meet someone predatory.
A little bit. I keep an eye on what he’s doing there, which is quite easy, as he just won’t stop talking about it. It’s also an opportunity for me to teach him, but in a way that he finds exciting. If one day I had decided to teach him XOR or NAND, he would’ve found it very boring. This way, he comes to me with questions, and I can pick up a piece of paper and show him what a truth table is, and he soaks it up. He feels like he’s cheating a bit at the game, because he has a Dad who helps him on the side, but no one knows, so he progresses very quickly and everyone thinks he’s very smart.
