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Internet Safety Tips For Teens & Parents
- Filters & Monitoring Software
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Internet Safety Tips
Here are some good guidelines for keeping
your children from viewing objectionable internet sites:
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Place your family computer in an open
area of the home rather than tucked away in a remote room.
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Set your computer up so it requires a
password. Then, if you leave your teens home alone, you can prevent
their access.
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Use both a monitoring software and a
filtering software. It is important to show your children that you can
always check to see all the sites they have visited. It is also
important, however, to prevent them from visiting the most objectionable
sites. We use both Spector (by Spectorsoft.com) to keep a record
of screenshots of all sites visited and Cybersitter (see
Cybersitter.com) to filter out objectionable content. There is
another software package called Guardian Monitor that both keeps a
record of screen shots (like Spector) and has internet filtering
ability. Since it costs less than Spector does now, it might be
worthwhile, especially if it does a good job of filtering.Click
Here To Learn More About Guardian Monitor
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Chat rooms and other areas of the
internet where kids interact with strangers are always an invitation for
trouble. In our internet filter, we can make such sites off limits.
Email for older teens is OK, provided it is email sent/received to/from
friends that are well known.
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A nice benefit of Cybersitter is that you
can turn access to the internet off completely - this is our favorite
option for the family computer. We only turn access back on in
supervised settings. This option is something to look for in any
filter you get.
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Filtered internet is offered at
http://www.afo.net/.
Some friends of our use this service and like it. "Filtered internet"
means that what you get is filtered at the server before it gets to you
rather than being filtered on your computer.
Copyright 2005 - Michael Sakowski -
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