Helping
Your Children Practice Safe Surfing Habits.
By Richard Rossbauer
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rights reserved
Did you know that young people
between the ages of 2 and 11
are increasing their use of the Internet at a faster rate than
the overall internet user population?
These Nielsen/NetRatings statistics were reported in the
January 2005 issue of PC Magazine™.
They show that this group of young
people doubled the number of web pages they viewed in one
year's time
(The increase for average web users was only about
15 percent for the same period).
Young boys increasingly viewed entertainment sites like
Disney-channel.com and cartoon sites.
Young girls were more interested in the instant messaging
sites
like MSN Messenger and AOL
instant messenger.
This fact should raise an alarm for parents. It does for us!
Predators are known to lurk in Chat Rooms waiting
to lure
children, especially young girls, into unsafe
situations.
Here are some Internet safety policies and practical
guidelines that will help make the Internet safer for
any family:
1. Position the computer monitor so you can see and control
what's showing from the internet.
2. Bookmark child safe web sites so your your children can
easily
get back to them.
3. Teach children that they should never give out personal
information over the Internet.
4. Make it clear to your children that people in chat rooms
are
ALWAYS strangers, no matter how often they chat to them,
and no matter how well they think they know them
5. Take an active interest in your child's activity online.
6. Do NOT use the Internet as a babysitter!
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their kids.
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Family Safety and
Identity Theft pages of our Firewalls and Virus Protection
website. Some Child and Family Safe websites that we have
reviewed and recommended to our grandchildren are listed in
our
Security Alert News Reporter newsletter,
and guides on selecting firewalls, anti-virus protection and
anti-spam software.
......... Richard
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Richard started his "Firewalls and Virus Protection" website
and
"Security Alert News Reporter" to help everyday Internet users
navigate safely through the Cyber Space that has become a
'Cyber Jungle', loaded with ambushes and booby traps.
He promotes his "Computer Security Awareness Campaign" thru
his website at
http://www.firewalls-and-virus-protection.com
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