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Tips for Parents:
- Keep the computer in a common room-- the family room, kitchen or another
area where Internet use is not private.
- Take time to teach your children (or let them teach YOU)
about the computer, using the Internet, chat and email
programs.
- KNOW where your children are going online and what they
are doing.
- Setup rules and/or a contract for using the
Internet. Post them near the computer as a reminder.
- Ask about your child's online friends, so you know with
whom they are communicating. Do NOT allow them to chat or email
somebody they do not personally know.
- Discuss appropriate information to share online.
Make sure they do not give out their name, address, phone number,
password, email address, pictures, school, town, baseball team or anything
else online that could possibly make them a target for an online predator.
- Discuss the kinds of content available on the Internet
and what is appropriate and what is not. Encourage them to tell you
if they get into an inappropriate area. (such places are all-too
easy to find)
- Tri-West offers Adult Content Filtering at no additional
charge for protecting your kids from unwanted web sites and language. There
are other software programs you can purchase and install yourself like Net
Nanny, Surf-Watch, Cyber Patrol and more. Click here for more
information: Content Filtering
- Report anything that gets by parental controls and let
your Internet service provider know what you expect to keep kids safe.
- Learn all you can about Internet security software that
blocks and filters undesirable information.
- Find more information at web sites like: www.netsmartz.org,
www.safekids.org or www.yahooligans.com/parents.
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