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Kids on the web
> Chat
Potential Dangers and Risks
- Offensive language and adult conversation
- Because of its interactive nature, the most
likely activity online through which children will encounter people who want
to harm them.
- Too much time online which limits a child's
well-rounded development by taking the place of friends, schoolwork, sports
and other activities.
Parenting Tips
- Instruct your child to never accept files
that are .exe .com .ini or .bat. There is a STRONG RISK of potential damage to
your computer.
- Accompany your child in chat rooms until he
or she learns your safety rules.
- Teach your child never to give out personal
information such as his or her name or address, town, school name or address,
or anything else that is personally identifying.
- Explain that people are not always who they
say they are. Anyone can say/pretend they are a teen.
- Set a rule that your child NEVER arranges
an in-person meeting without you present
- Limit your child to specific chat rooms or
consider blocking out chat entirely
What Parental Control Tools
Can Do
- Allow access only to monitored chat rooms
or block access to all chat rooms
- Block private messages between a child and
another user
- Limit your child's ability to give out
personal information
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