How to Protect Your Children from Internet Predators

The internet has become a crazed world with online communities such as myspace, friendster and for younger kids club penguin, and within these communities are dangerous predators as well. Here are some tips to protect your children from internet predators.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Time
• Communication

1. Maintain communication with your kids. Kids younger than seven shouldn't be on the internet unless you have filtered the internet and you are there with them.

2. Children will want to have online accounts, but it is always safer to not let them have any at least until they are in high schoool. If they have online accounts try to have access to it so that you can know who's talking to them. It makes it a little harder for predators to contact them if they know they are not alone online.

3. Know their friends. If you can't get access to their online accounts, set parental controls on your browser to their age. Also check your browser's history for sites that they visited and ask questions on sites you don't know about or even sites you do know about and want to know what they were doing.

4. Set limits as to how much time and what sites they can visit and always remind them to never give personal information over the internet no matter what age they are.

5. Trust your children. You can monitor there activities, while allowing them to have some freedom a tenth grader might be more reluctant to tell you what they are doing, but if you show that you trust them, they will open up to you.

Tips & Warnings

• These are just some tips and you know your child best.
• Remind your children to NEVER EVER give their personal information over the internet, regardless of who they think it is.
• Never invade their privacy. It will lead to very bad fights and too many headaches.

[nrblack8118]

on 11/16/2009 This is very simple,.. Bring back the form of public execution they must learn that if this crime is committed that it is not tolerated period. it sickens me to see people just sitting on death row,eating tax payers dollars. and them having some,committed crimes like multiple rap and murder if children breathing there same air i breath. THEY DO NOT DESERVE SUCH A PRIVILEGE OR RIGHT. The highly influential life of our children is more valuable than any commodity that can be bought and sold.AS WORLD CITIZENS NOT JUST AMERICANS. we cannot sit buy and blink and blind eye to the destruction and havoc it cost the victims. Public execution would bring about the idea that we will not tolerate and certainly will not stand by and even let you be able to see the light of day if you touch a child in this world,You would be brought to justice immediately and with great expedience you will be pun...