This guide is about behaviours and practices rather than software.
By now you probably are already aware of the most basic practices, but for a refresher click here.
Know your child’s real world first. Who are his or her friends? Who do they hang out with at school? Which friends have computers and internet connections.
Talk to the [...]Others in this Group An Introduction – the iParent Guide (This post) – June 19, 2009Become a tween – June 25, 2009Parents – June 21, 2009Safety Scams Risking Kids – June 25, 2009The Great Spy Debate – June 25, 2009The Hypocrisy Fallacy – June 25, 2009The Nature of the Risk – June 20, 2009Their Own Web Site – a safety feature – June …Read the rest – An Introduction – the iParent Guide
Just one day after the misleading story run by CTV, CBC News Network covered the chatroulette dot com site in its morning news cycle.
The expert brought forward by CBC did not leave the impression that parents are helpless, but advised them to use “content filtering or monitoring software.”
This is the appropriate advice. Where it falls [...]
The Canadian television broadcaster CTV, recently ran a story about how helpless parents are in dealing with sites such as chatroulette dot com. In its national news broadcast, imitating many global media, CTV put on an expert who suggested that parents have little or no control, as even products such as NetNanny may not exclude [...]
Beware Strangers Bearing Gifts: Safety Scams
by Glenn Caleval
Concerned parents are an ideal target for the unscrupulous. Even when it’s not a “scam” in the legal sense, there are highly unethical “free” offers out there that you need to be very careful with. Please, please, do read the “Terms & Conditions” and “Disclaimers” and any similar [...]Others in this Group An Introduction – the iParent Guide – June 19, 2009Become a tween – June 25, 2009Parents – June 21, 2009Safety Scams Risking Kids (This post) – June 25, 2009The Great Spy Debate – June 25, 2009The Hypocrisy Fallacy – June 25, 2009The Nature of the Risk – June 20, 2009Their Own Web Site – a safety feature – June …Read the rest – Safety Scams Risking Kids
Internet Filters
What are they?
An internet filtering service or software should block access to dangerous or offensive web sites and provide as much flexibility as possible to the user, parent or employer to blacklist or approve specific sites or entire categories of sites.
There are a number of alternatives available, but you should choose with great care [...]Others in this GroupE-mail Client – June 28, 2009OpenDNS – June 28, 2009Web Filters (This post) – June 28, 2009
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