Internet Safety and Security

Internet safety is not just for kids who go online. A growing number of seniors are also starting to surf the World Wide Web. Many are using it for social networking and match making.

“The fastest growing demographic group on Facebook is women over the age of 55,” says Debra Berlyn, who runs the Consumer Privacy Awareness Project.

The same type of protection we stress for our children is just as important to our seniors who are surfing the Internet. Parents today should monitor and filter what their kids are doing online, but parents and grandparents need to realize the Internet is just as dangerous for them.

Remember nothing is personal on the Internet talk to the seniors in your family and warn them not to give out any personal information online. Inform them that once they click that send button it’s gone.

Protect those you love with Internet protection. Instruct and inform your loved ones of the perils of the Internet, and offer them a way to be safe online with a good Internet monitoring and filtering system.

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It Takes A Village to Raise a Child.

Most of us have heard of this book by Hillary Rodham Clinton. The village that is being spoken of is the government. The title gives the opinion that you can’t raise your child without our governments help.

I’m not sure where you stand on this, but as for me I don’t want or need the government telling me how to raise my child. With that said I want to discuss the area of the Internet. Some lawmakers and local politicians would say “you must allow full access to the Internet to those who would want it” this is including children.

This is the parent’s responsibility not the government, we as parents must control what and what not our children have access to. Parents don’t need big brother to raise their children and to admonish parents who limit or restrict what their children have permission to view. The Internet is a vast domain of wonder and excitement; it is also a place of danger.

Do not fall prey to those who would mock and scold you for filtering what your kids have access to. You have the right and the responsibility to do so. Open your eyes and stop, look and listen to what your family is doing on the Internet.

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The Internet is a great tool, but you need to have the proper safety installed on it to protect you and your family. Sit down and do your research there are a number of Internet filters on the market. Choose the one that is right for your family and use it.

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I ran across this quote on an Internet safety site and I found myself saying ” what are you stupid or what” Here it is and I will explain.

Parents need to understand that the greatest risk our children face online is being denied access. The Internet is essential to our children’s education, future careers and lives. But even the most experienced Internet user doesn’t understand how children use the Internet and how to help them have a safer and more enjoyable surfing experience.

I’m sorry I don’t get it the greatest danger they face online is being grated to much access. The same thinking would lead you to say, don’t stop your kids from drinking or smoking for this will cause grave danger to them. Bringing up children in the day and age we live in is a BATTLE.

There are those that would like nothing more than to destroy your unsuspecting innocent children. The Internet is a place of good and evil it is a place that must be monitored and yes if need be cut off from your children. Please don’t fall into the trap of these so called educators who would say “Don’t keep a tight lease on your kids, trust them and allow them to explore for if you don’t you will push them away.”

HOGWASH Make sure you parent them this means lead, guide and yes saying NO when needed. Do the research and educate yourself in regards to protecting your family from the dangers of the Internet.

Parents need to understand that the greatest risk our children face online is being denied access.

Please do not fall for this it is your God giving responsibility to mold and protect your children.

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A large majority of today’s youth are caught up in the area of playing video games and using gaming systems such as Wii, Nintendo and other like systems. They also have the ability to go online and play games. While this may seem harmless there are a number of potential dangers to these online games.

Today’s games have come a long way from Pac Man, Pong and other similar games of the past. The typical game of today has violence and graphics that are so real Kids actually feel like they are part of the game. We have games where you can steal cars, pick up prostitutes and randomly massacre people. The question is will it have an effect on your kids?

Though the vast majority of kids who indulge themselves in these games will not go out a murder someone, or steal a car, the images and actions will be forever ingrained in their mind. What you allow in your child’s mind will affect them.

Parents would you allow a pimp to come to your door and solicit a prostitute to your child? I would think not, how about a neighborhood thug that’s wants your son or daughter to go out and rob a store and kill the clerk behind the counter. Sounds crazy right? Then why allow your kids to play these games. I believe by doing so we are sending a message to them that this is acceptable.

Parents start off by monitoring what your kids are doing. Do not allow the games that promote violence and crime as an acceptable way of life in your home. You may also want to install some type of parental control or Internet filter on your computer.

Remember what go’s in the eye gate will make an indelible imprint on Their life.

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Safe surfing Internet tips

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Chat rooms

Children and teens are drawn to chat rooms. The problem is, sexual predators also are. Parents must wake up to the fact of how dangerous chat rooms can be. The fact that participants identities are unknown, the content unfiltered and the ability to unlimited access by virtually anyone, Make this a combination for disaster.

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 40 % of children ages 15 to 17 who are abducted are victims in connection with Internet activity. The way that kids use chat rooms open them up to all kinds of predators.

Polling of teens reveals that more than half who enter chat rooms – give out personal information to complete strangers., including their phone numbers, home addresses, where they go to school or their schedules.

The fact is the majority of kids who fall victim to chat rooms will not be abducted. To the contrary though the stranger lurking around the playground that you warn your child about , may be the person they are chatting with online.

Donna Rice Hughes, president of Enough Is Enough (EIE), a nonprofit organization that teaches families how to be safe online, says: “We recommend that parents seriously consider disallowing chat rooms because they are very difficult to monitor. And even in the monitored ones there are no guarantees because you can’t detect a disguised predator.”

Mrs. Hughes is right. We as parents must monitor and enforce rules on Internet usage. We must also install a secure Internet filter that will help us in protecting our family.

Basic tips for parents to discuss with their children.

• “Don’t talk to strangers” applies online, too.

• Explain that predators often disguise themselves as children online, and that they should never, have a personal discussions with anyone.

• Talk to you right away if they feel uncomfortable or threatened.

• Never give out personal information to anyone.

• monitor and limit the amount of time on the Internet.

The Internet is a wonderful place that can greatly benefit your children. The Internet is also a place of Danger, deceit and deception. As a parent keep your eyes open and be diligent in the effort of protecting your children.

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Wake up –Parents it is your responsibility to protect your children from Internet Predators.

Please do not turn a blind eye to your Child’s use of the Internet. We live in a world that sick people or shall I say animals are lurking in Chat rooms, Social websites and countless other places waiting to take advantage of you unsuspecting children.

Following is a very disturbing article that shows the sickness of these online praetors.

Please talk to your kids, Watch what they are doing online and who they are talking to.

Choose a Internet filter that will help you keep the garbage from being pumped in your house and in your Child’s mind.

Sentencing will take place this week in the first federal cyber bullying case in the US which was brought to trial after a teenage girl took her own life.

Lori Drew, 50, pretended to be a boy on the MySpace website to befriend Megan Meier, who hanged herself after the virtual friendship ended.

A California judge postponed sentencing until 2 July to review testimony from two witnesses.

Ms Drew’s landmark case concerning internet law made worldwide headlines.

Megan, a neighbor of Ms Drew’s in St Louis, Missouri, and a former friend of her daughter, took her own life in October 2006.

The court was told that Megan killed herself after receiving several cruel messages from a fictitious 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans.

One post said the world would be better off without her.

Prosecutors said that Ms Drew and several others created the fake online page on MySpace, the social networking site, to find out what Megan was saying about her daughter after they had fallen out.

Read the article in its entirety here-http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8127533.stm

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As the summer heats up a good majority of kids will op to stay in doors.

The most popular activity they will find them self doing is surfing the net. As a parent I think it is very important to limit our kids time on the computer. The Internet is a great learning tool,but like many other things to much of it will be a hindrance to your child.

Therefore parents go on a hike, take a picnic lunch to the park you and the kids wall grow closer as a result.

When you kids are on the Internet protect them with a good Internet filter.

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