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BEIJING (Reuters) – China has banned electro-shock therapy as a treatment for Internet addiction, citing uncertainty in the safety and effectiveness of the practice after criticism in the local media.

The Ministry of Health announcement followed recent media reports about a controversial psychiatrist in Linyi, Shandong Province, who administered electric currents to nearly 3,000 teenagers in an attempt to rid them of their Internet habit.

There is a better way to control teens in their use of the Internet. Most would look at this article and throw their hands up and shake their head in unbelief of such stupidity. Teens need guidance, teens need leadership in the area of Internet usage, and they don’t need to be ZAPPED.

Teens speaking as a parent of three teenage girls’ teens need to be directed and corrected in the do’s and don’ts of the Internet. The problem is most parents want to be friends with their teens rather than parents.

Parents must sit down with their children and explain the dangers of the Internet. Parents must also establish rules to the usage of the Internet. The key to making this work is to consistency keep your word and follow through with the guidelines you set forth. What those guidelines are will vary with each family.

Parents also can and should use parental monitoring software, and a good Internet filter. This will be a huge help in keeping your teens safe online while also being able to monitor what they are looking at and where they are going.

Please don’t turn a blind eye to your teens use of the Internet You are not saying you don’t trust them by monitoring their Internet usage, you are saying I love you and I want to protect you.

Internet Safety, Parental Control, Protecting Children

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.

Family, Internet Safety, Protecting Children

Internet safety is usually packaged as protection for children. Don’t get me wrong we need to protect our youth,but we also need protection for the adults of the household.

When people of all ages are on the Internet, there is very little accountability in regards to knowing where, when and how long they have been on the Internet. The use a good Internet filter will assist in keeping your household free of the dangers of the Internet.

A good filter will have the capability of generating reports of usage of a computers visited web sites. It will also add a accountability feature that will allow you to have a partner view your surfing history.

PORNOGRAPHY ADDICTION STATS

PORNOGRAPHY ADDICTION AND INDUSTRY STATISTICS

As of 2003, there were 1.3 million pornographic websites; 260 million pages

U.S. adult DVD/video rentals in 2005: almost 1 billion (Adult Video News).
Hotel viewership for adult films: 55% (cbsnews.com).

Unique worldwide users visiting adult web sites monthly: 72 million

Number of hardcore pornography titles released in 2005 .

Adults admitting to Internet sexual addiction: 10%; 28% of those are women .

More than 70% of men from 18 to 34 visit a pornographic site in a typical month (comScore Media Metrix).

More than 20,000 images of child pornography posted online every week (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 10/8/03).

Approximately 20% of all Internet pornography involves children (National Center for Mission & Exploited Children).

100,000 websites offer illegal child pornography (U.S. Customs Service estimate).

As of December 2005, child pornography was a $3 billion annual industry .

“At a 2003 meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, two thirds of the 350 divorce lawyers who attended said the Internet played a significant role in the divorces in the past year, with excessive interest in online porn contributing to more than half such cases. Pornography had an almost non-existent role in divorce just seven or eight years ago.” (Divorcewizards.com)

Internet safety is not just for children

Protect yourself from the temptation of pornography, put a stop to the open door of filth that is pumped into your household via the Internet.

Please don’t allow your self to become another satistic,protect yourself and your household with a good filtering system.

Block pornography, Filtering Internet, Monitoring Software

House Web Safety Bill Forthcoming

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., will soon introduce legislation that would create a competitive grant program for state and local education agencies and non-profit organizations to provide Internet safety education to teachers, schools and parents. The bill would authorize up to $175 million over a five year period, would be administered by the Justice Department in collaboration with the departments of Health and Human Services and Education.

There is no one thing that will that will eliminate misuse of the Internet. It must be a joint effort with parents leading in the way. Wasserman Schultz said at a Wednesday briefing on Capitol Hill sponsored by Point Smart, Click Safe – a coalition of non-profits and companies like Comcast, Google, Verizon, and Yahoo. “Our bill recognizes that knowledge must be our children’s first line of defense”

We as pareants must educate our children in the dangers of the Internet. There are a host of products that can aid in safe Internet usage, but it comes down to parents talking with there children and implementing a good Internet filtering system.

Filtering Internet, Internet Safety, Protecting Children

The North Syracuse Central School District is close to implementing a policy to regulate Internet use in the district.
At its July 6 meeting, the NSCSD Board of Education had its first discussion regarding a proposed Internet safety policy after a presentation by Christopher Nelson, the district¡¦s director of instructional technologies.
The policy designates that the district should implement a filtering system to block entry to websites that are obscene, pornographic or harmful to students¡¨ as defined by the Children¡¦s Internet Protection Act, enacted by the Federal Communications Commission in 2001. It dictates that all use of the district¡¦s Internet access must be for legitimate educational purposes, and it prohibits use of the Internet that violates the law, causes harm to others, jeopardizes student and network security or for personal financial gain.
As part of the policy, the district will hold forums at the beginning of each school year to educate students and their families about appropriate Internet behavior, including interacting on social networking sites and in chat rooms.
In order to ensure proper use by students, teachers and other staff are tasked with monitoring student computer use. They will ensure that student’s don¡¦t access sites that are adult or sexually explicit or that provide information on criminal skills, hacking, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, hate speech, violence or weapons. Students will also be prohibited from visiting  chat rooms using district access.

Internet Filter, Internet Monitoring, Internet Safety

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

Family, Internet Safety, Protecting Children

Children today have access to much more information then back in my days growing up. Most kids today grow up on TV and the computer. With that said today’s kids have the ability at the click of a mouse to access all kinds of things. They have the ability to chat with people across the continent or to view the peak of Mount Everest.

The minds of our children are a very volatile place. The Internet can be a blessing and a curse depending on your ability to filter the trash out and keep the good stuff available. The decision is up to you, will you take the chance of having your child have full range of the World wide web?

The answer is simple do your research and install a good Internet Filter. All filters are not equal I would recommend Clean Internet this is a family friendly filter that will guarantee to protect your house hold from Internet trash.

Get an Internet Filter Also parent’s discuss with your children these 10 guideline

1. I will not give out any personal information over the Internet without my parents’ permission.

2. I will tell my parents right away if I come across any information that makes me feel uncomfortable.

3. When using the Internet I will not use my picture or pictures of my family members.

4. The computer will be in the family room (not in a child’s room).

5. I will never agree to meet anyone that I met online without checking with my parents first.

6. I will not respond to any messages that are mean or in any way make me feel uncomfortable.

7. I will not give out my Internet password to anyone, not even my best friends, other than my parents.

8. I will check with my parents before downloading or installing software or doing anything that could possibly hurt our computer or jeopardize my family’s privacy.

9. I will be a good online and not to do anything that hurts other people or is against the law.

10.I will help my parents to understand what I like online, how to have fun, and teach them about how to use the Internet, the computers, and all technology.

Internet Filters, Internet Safety

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.

Family

Why, if you have children you have heard this word countless times. Mom why do i have to clean my room? Dad why do I have to take the trash out what about Johny let him do it.

When it comes to the Internet why you should have filtering software installed is summed up in the following.

Protect yourself and your family from unintentional Pornography.

Protect yourself and your family from intentional pornography.

Protect yourself and your family from onlinr preditors that lurk in chat rooms.

Protect yourself and your family  pop ups that are not appropriate.

Protect yourself and your family From Drugs  Advocating or promoting recreational use of any controlled substance.

Protect yourself and your family from Violence: Graphic images or written descriptions of wanton violence or grave injury (mutilation, maiming, dismemberment, etc.) Includes graphically violent games.

Protect yourself and your family from Suicide / Murder: Information on committing murder or suicide

Protect yourself and your family from Tasteless/Gross: Bodily functions. Tasteless humor. Graphic medical photos. Some extreme forms of body modification (cutting, branding, piercing).

Protect yourself and your family from Profanity: Crude, vulgar, or obscene language or gestures.

Internet Filter, Internet Safety, Protecting Children