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Tips for Parents to Protect Children
from Internet Predators
A January 2002 Family PC Magazine surveyed 750 of their readers and found that
78% of parents are concerned about children's access to pornography.
What can you do to protect your children from online filth?
- Become more computer literate and Internet savvy.
- Keep the computer in a "public" area in your house. Monitor your
child's computer use. Talk with your children about their online activities
and their online friends.
- Check out parental controls available on your online service. Block adult
chat rooms. Block Instant/Personal Messages from people you don't know.
Install filtering/blocking software, or use a "clean Internet
provider" that filters at the server level.
- Do not let your children have online profiles, so they will not be listed
in directories and are less likely to be approached in children's chat
rooms, where pedophiles often search for prey.
- Tell your children to never "go private" into a private chat
room.
- Tell your children to never give out personal information, including name,
address, school they attend or teachers' names, parents' names, etc.
- Tell your children to never, never, never tell anyone where they will be
or what they will be doing, and they may never meet someone from online
without you.
- Tell your children to never respond to rude or offensive e-mail, messages,
or postings.
- Do not allow your children to post, send or receive pictures online.
Picture files generally end with GIF, JPG, or JPEG.
- Monitor the amount of time your child spends on the Internet, and at what
times of day. Excessive time online, especially at night, may indicate a
problem. Time on the Internet is time taken from other healthy activities.
- Tell your children to let you know if anything seems strange to them, if
they are asked personal ("what are you wearing" type) questions,
or if their online friend invites them someplace.
- Changes in your child's behavior (mention of adults you don't know,
secretiveness, inappropriate sexual knowledge, sleeping problems, etc.) may
indicate a problem.
- Letting children use the Internet unattended, particularly talking in chat
rooms, is the equivalent of dropping them off in Central Park and saying,
"Go make some new friends."
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