Internet Safety Tips for Kids
Internet Safety Tips for Kids
By John Liu
When the web was in its infancy, the internet was a non entity for kids. Yet, in the last few years, television networks, advertisements, cartoon shows and especially friends all encourage kids to go websites for web games, web stickers, wallpaper and so on. With this explosion of the internet, parents need some Internet Safety Tips for Kids. Here are my suggestions:
-The best internet safety tips for kids that I can give is to limit your child s use of a computer to a family computer in the living room so you can always keep an eye on what they are doing.
-Put a time limit on internet use just like a time limit for watching television.
-Surf the internet with your kids. See what sites they usually go on and what they have interest in.
-Remind your children not to enter any personal information such as their name, address, birthday, email etc on any website without your permission. Try to get them to understand a person on the internet is just like a “stranger” in real life.
-Tell you child that if he/she feels like they re been threatened or “hurt” on the internet, they should tell you immediately.
- Make sure Internet Explorer history cache is set up. Go to Tools and then Internet Options. A good internet safety tip for kids is to set Internet Explorer to record the history of the websites that your child has been visiting. A week later you can go view the history and see what sites your kids have been visiting.
-If the history is empty however and you know you set IE to record the history, your kids might be deleting it to cover up their tracks.
-If you are unable to supervise your kid s internet use or you worry that your kid might be deleting the history, you need to set up a separate and restricted internet account for your kids on the computer. Then you can install a child friendly browser for your children such as Buddy Browser. The separate and restricted accounts makes sure your child will not be able to install or surf without your own settings.
John Liu is a computer specialist.
Is your child surfing the internet using Internet Explorer or deleting the history files? If yes,they might not be surfing in a safe environment of the web! Learn how to fix these vulnerabilities at John s site. Visit his site at http://internetsafetyblog.blogspot.com for easy to follow step by step instructions on how to completely safeguard your computer for your kids using a completely safe and kid proof browser.
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