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Kids on the web
> Web
Potential Dangers and Risks
- Easy-to-find sites with sexually explicit
images and text
- Easy-to-find sites promoting hatred,
bigotry, violence, drugs, cults, and other things not appropriate for children
- Inaccurate, misleading, and untrue
information
- No restrictions on marketing products such
as alcohol and tobacco to children
- Marketing that deceptively collects
personal information from kids in order to sell products to them or their
parents
- Requests for personal information for
contests, surveys, etc., that are used in unauthorized ways
- Easy access to games with excessive
violence and gender stereotypes
Parenting Tips
- Keep computer in family area to better
monitor your child's activity
- Regularly spend time online with your child
to learn about his or her interests and activities
- Teach your child to end any experience
online when he or she feels uncomfortable or scared by pressing the back key,
logging off, and telling a trusted adult as soon as possible
- Establish an atmosphere of trust and
understanding with your child by not blaming him or her for uncomfortable
online experiences
- Discuss the difference between advertising
and educational or entertaining content and show your child examples of each
- Establish strict rules for ordering
products (and then monitor credit card bills)
- "Talk back" to Internet Service Providers
and content creators to let them know what you want and expect from them in
keeping kids safe online
What Parental Control
Can Do
- Block access to materials (text and
pictures) identified as inappropriate for kids.
- Permit access only to materials
specifically approved as safe for kids.
- Allow you to specify what types of
materials are appropriate for your child.
- Help you monitor your child's activity on
the Internet by storing names of sites and pictures of material seen by your
child on the computer for you to view later.
- Allow you to set different restrictions for
each family member.
- Limit results of an Internet search to
content appropriate for kids.
- Enforce time limits set by parents.
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