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Keep Your Kids Safe on the World Wide Web

By: Phyllis Wheeler


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Here's the issue: how to be sure your kids are safe from viewing objectionable sites when they are searching the Internet. After all, you don't want them to stumble across something they should not see.

Maybe you are hoping to buy a program for your computer that blocks objectionable sites, but will allow them to do the research you want them to do.

I have sad news for you--there is no such perfect solution. There are solutions out there, such as NetNanny, that block any site mentioning one of a list of objectionable words. The result can be funny, such as blocking the word "arm," and at the same time can drive you nuts if you really want to do regular research on, say, breast cancer.

But programs like this fail when trying to filter objectionable photo sites that have no objectionable words. So, how do I know this? I am sad to say that my teenage son enlightened me. Using Google Images, he searched for objectionable sites and found them, even though the filtering program was on.

The software could not have detected the objectionable photos, since NetNanny and similar software look for objectionable words. They are not able to evaluate pictures.

The next question is, "What's a parent to do?"

*Put the computers the kids use where YOU are in your home. Then monitor what they are doing.

*To log on, anyone who is not an adult will have to ask an adult to input the password, giving permission in this way.

*Require the child to log off when he is done. Now the password is required for the next session.

*Use filtering software. It may help.

*Kids should be told what you expect from them, and the consequences of disobedience.

*Unplug the Internet cables if the child doens't need to access the Internet for his task.

*Make younger kids use your email address. Then you can be sure to delete that filth that lands in the inbox from time to time. Or, as the kids get older, give them their own but instruct them to give out their address only to trusted friends.

Following these precautions will help you keep your kids safe, and will teach your teenagers good habits for avoiding temptations.

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Phyllis Wheeler, the Computer Lady, gives these tips for parents. She also provides homeschool computer courses via MotherboardBooks.com, which has offered do-it-yourself computer science courses for kids and teens since 2003.



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