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Keeping Your Children Safe Online

Parents Must Take Responsibility for Their Children's Internet Use

No one else can do it for you. You need to provide your children with a safe and healthy Internet environment.

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Make Sure Your Kids are Safe!

Why You Need to Be Involved

  • 1Authorities have no control over Internet content - kids can be exposed to anything.
  • 2Disturbing content, such as hardcore pornography, has a highly traumatic effect on children.
  • 3Most children have access to computers when adults are not around.
  • 4Cyberspace is confusing - no rules or limits exist and children should not be left alone to guess.
  • 5The Internet can be addictive. Spending too much time online has both physical and emotional consequences..

What You Can Do to Help Make the Internet a Safe Place

There are several issues that you need to address and be aware of once your children start using the Internet on their own. Like any activity, it should be kept in proportion. As a parent, do not be afraid to set clear limits about computer use and to stick to them. You have a right - and a responsibility - to decide how much time your children spend online and to what they do online. Conduct periodic discussions with your children about their Internet usage and be involved, even if your afraid of technology.

Privacy is an issue. But in the same way that you do not allow your child to go anywhere alone with anyone they happen to meet - you need to have the same rules for Internet use.

A basic part of every family's online life should be an Internet filter. The Optenet PC Web Filter allows you to choose the type of content your family can and cannot view, it allows you to set exact schedules for each computer user and it provides you with visibility into what your family is doing on the Internet. it allows you to have parental control.