MY IDEAS FOR » Computers http://my-ideas-for.com Your Ideas for, My Ideas for, Just Ideas for Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:02:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 ARE YOUR KIDS SAFE ON THE NET? http://my-ideas-for.com/are-your-kids-safe/ http://my-ideas-for.com/are-your-kids-safe/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:42:58 +0000 admin http://my-ideas-for.com/?p=924 more » ]]>

I have a question Do You Know What Your Kids are Doing On the Web? Hi I’m Dennis Cook owner of J D Webcrafters. I would like to talk to you about Kids and the Internet and there safety,

Its no secret that there are predictors on the net looking for that one individual to scam or take advantage of, Don’t let it be your child. As a father and Grandfather I care about this topic. When the Internet got started my children were very young and not much was known about the impact and scope the Internet would have. As I and  my children grew and began using the net for there

With school back in full swing and Kids starting to do more on the web for there school projects and papers I have a question Do You Know What Your Kids are Doing On the Web? Hi I’m Dennis Cook owner of J D Webcrafters. I would like to talk to you about Kids and the Internet and there safety,

Its no secret that there are predictors on the net looking for that one individual to scam or take advantage of, Don’t let it be your child. As a father and Grandfather I care about this topic. When the Internet got started my children were very young and not much was known about the impact and scope the Internet would have. As I and my children grew and began using the net for there

school work things were beginning to develop where the Internet was going to boom with information and technology and yes the scams and predictors too. So being a computer and Internet junkie that I am there was no way to keep my kids from picking up on the tools of the computer. As time went on we had are problems of trying to limit the amount of time the kids spent on the computer and I began monitoring what they were doing as best I could with the knowledge I had of working with programs. I began seeing things that disturbed me. One of my children started there own e-mail on yahoo and that was not OK with me. So to fight the problems and keep the kids safe from the now prevalent porn and the unmonitored e-mail I had to make it a rule no e mail unless I have the pass word to enter. Will! You know that went over like a lead balloon and they argued it was an invasion of there privacy. I just explained that there can be problems with e-mail and its not an invasion unless your trying to hide something. RIGHT!. We did not have Internet software that could be used to keep an eye on what my children were seeing and doing. Now technology has jumped and there is a tool to keep the kids safe and monitor what there doing.

How about you! Do you know what your kids are doing on the net?

Its so easy now for kids to just happen on a less then desirable website simple by accident. What about My-Space, Face-book, and all the rest of the new and crazy social networks and forums the kids can get in to. I found this just the other day and this is way I’m writing about this topic. If this was available when my kids we’re on the internet I would have used it for sure. PC-Tattletale. Keep an eye on what your children are doing on the net and stop problems before they turn into night mares.

Please take a little time and read this free report about “What to do about Myspace”. By Amy Cainfield

Tip to Help Protect the Kids

1. If you use Internet Explore you can set there security program to on to help stop websites that have bad language, Subject of Adult origin. Here’s how, open your Browser then click on tools, mouse down to Internet options. Click on the content tap, Then click on the enable button. Now you can set what is appropriate for your needs. As time goes on you can train the content to allow websitse that maybe block at first by interring the site in the approved sight tab. Be sure and set a password so you and only you, the Adults in the house can turn on or off the content manager.

2. Talk with your kids about what the Internet is for and be clear about what you expect from them when on the internet. Explain (Age appropriate of course) The dangers of just random surfing and what it can do, what to do if they see something that is inappropriate. Pictures,Statements in an e-mail, Face-booking with friends what ever the situation you must let them Know they can tell you or talk to you about it. IF you have older children Teenager’s and your not sure what there doing then I suggest you use the PC Tattletale or software like it.

3. Limit the amount of time your kids are on the computer. You decide whats acceptable. But work it out so the kids can get school work done and get outside and play. Maybe limit the game playing to just an hour or two during the week and then a time slot of OK to play time, during the weekend like a couple hours in the morning and at night before bed time but not during the day when they can be outside or helping mom and Dad with house hold projects.

4. Be sure and make the computer a privilege and a tool. There are ways to do this if you have a router most of them have an area in the admin area that will allow you to block a website or limit the amount of time a computer can have access to the net or a website. If you do access your Internet threw a router just consult your router hand book for this and instruction. Don’t have your Handbook OK just go to the makers web site under support most have the original manuals and how-to on there sights for your particular model.

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