Providing your family with the tools, advise and utilities to keep them safe online is a very important part of your daily life.
Child Safety
By admin in guidelines
May
21
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Keep Children Safe Online - Too
By admin in guidelines
May
18
Some times we need to remember that keeping children safe is very important online too. There are numerous cases were children have fell victim to cyber bullies and internet predators and this needs your attention as much as your kids have your attention on other parts of their safety.
Best Child Internet Safety
By admin in General
May
11
As parents, we are naturally concerned with child safety and specifically, with child Internet safety. The Internet has made information easily available for everyone.
Safety Online for your Children
Online safety is just as important as keeping your children safe from strangers in the real world. There people all over the place that are looking to hurt children just for fun and it is therefore important that you keep an eye on your children both online and offline. However, it is much less stressful when you have internet filtration software as this helps you to know what is going on with your children all the time and knowing this can help put your mind at ease. Here are a few ways to keep your kids safe:
Best Child Internet Safety Options
By admin in guidelines
May
4
There are many ways in which you can ensure that your children are safe from the potential dangers that lurk on the internet and one of the best ways to ensure that they are kept at bay from your children is by using internet filtration software that is constantly updated and kept track off as well as set up properly!
As most people know the internet can be an amazing resource and provide hours of fun for kids, but there is a side to the internet that can be worrying for any parent.
Chat rooms have been a main cause of concern for years, with adults posing as young children and chatting to unsuspecting kids, and in extreme cases trying to organise secret meetings with the child. Things are changing slowly and a lot of chat rooms are starting to monitor their sites more closely, but unfortunately not everyone is following suit.
Websites with explicit images are another problem that children may be exposed to, a few of these websites have a warning on their homepage alerting the user to the fact that the site contains this sort of material, but unfortunately not all of them.
Another major worry for a parent is spam email containing explicit images, most of this type of spam gets sent from countries where any type of law is not easily enforced and therefore the culprits can go on sending, hopefully one day we will see the end of this type of marketing but unfortunately at the moment it is here to stay.
There are things that can be done to protect your children from this type of exposure on the internet, and below we will cover a few of these things.
Child Internet Safety Caution
Children are always unsafe without someone to look out for them and I can vouch for that. The internet is also a place that they can become susceptible to many dangers that are really encountered out there in the open world. So, just like you would keep them safe in the real world, you should also ensure that you have them kept safely in the virtual and online community.
Safety for Children Online
By admin in guidelines
Apr
29
Keeping children safe on the Internet is everyone’s job.
* Parents need to stay in close touch with their kids as they explore the Internet.
* Teachers need to help students use the Internet appropriately and safely.
* Community groups, including libraries, after-school programs, and others should help educate the public about safe surfing.
* Kids and teens need to learn to take responsibility for their own behavior — with guidance from their families and communities.
* It’s not at all uncommon for kids to know more about the Internet and computers than their parents or teachers. If that’s the case in your home or classroom, don’t despair. You can use this as an opportunity to turn the tables by having your child teach you a thing or two about the Internet. Ask her where she likes to go on the Internet and what she thinks you might enjoy on the Net. Get your child to talk with you about what’s good and not so good about his Internet experience. Also, no matter how Web-literate your kid is, you should still provide guidance. You can’t automate good parenting.
Save Your Childs Grace
By admin in General
Apr
28
Keep an eye on what their eyes see. They will those eyes for the rest of their lives.
Children are gems to be treasured always and it is imperative that you as the parent always ensures that they are safe especially when they are online. There are many dangers online and you would want to educate your kids about them so that they will not be tempted to do something that is incorrect. It is very important that you always ensure that you have an updated and constantly working filtration software system installed and configured on any PC that your child has access to.
Parental Guidelines for Internet Safety - Teenagers
By admin in guidelines
Apr
24
”Sexting” is the practice of taking a sexually revealing picture of yourself, typically from a cell phone, and sending it to someone. Legal consequences aside, it’s a dumb thing to do, especially for younger age groups in which it has become something of a fad.
Even if you are comfortable with the person receiving the image, you never know for sure where else it might land. Digital images are easy to copy and forward and, even if you trust your friend’s discretion, it can be accidentally forwarded or seen by others with access to your friend’s phone or computer. It’s not uncommon for such images to find their way to other people’s cell phones and even Web pages, where they can be seen by anyone, copied, searched for and redistributed, perhaps forever.
For minors, there’s another risk — serious legal consequences. Creating, transmitting and even possessing a nude, semi-nude or sexually explicit image of a minor can be considered child pornography. It can be prosecuted as a state or federal felony and can even lead to having to register as a sex offender.
Boy, am I glad the Internet and camera phones weren’t around when I was a kid. Read the rest of this entry »
Guidelines
By admin in guidelines
Apr
17
Here’s something that you probably didn’t know before and I hope that this information helps you keep your children as safe as they deserve to be.
Child Security in Chat Rooms
Chat rooms have long been a favourite pastime on the internet for kids. They can be great fun and the children can make some great new friends online. The problem with chat rooms is that they are generally anonymous, so the person that they are chatting to may not be who they say they are.
Unless you supervise your children whenever they are in a chat room then controlling who they chat too can be a problem, although, there are some general guidelines that your children can follow to make their online chatting safer:
