Protecting Children on the Internet
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I was just reading this month's Kiwanis magazine, and in it there is a brief article - Top 10 Steps to Make a Child's Online Experience Safe and Educational:
- Limit the time the child spends online.
- Teach children that talking to screen names and in chat rooms is the same as talking with strangers.
- Teach the child never to give out personal information.
- Never give a child credit card numbers or passwords.
- Remind the child that not everything he or she reads online is true.
- Make use of parental control features.
- Provide the child with an e-mail address only if he or she is mature enough to handle it.
- Teach children never to agree to meet in person someone they meet online.
- Teach children to use the same courtesy communicating online as they would in person.
- Teach the child to follow the same guidelines when using other computers, such as at libraries, schools, and a friend's house.
Do you think these steps are necessary? Are they sufficient? I've felt much better since I gave up hope.
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I was just reading this month's Kiwanis magazine, and in it there is a brief article - Top 10 Steps to Make a Child's Online Experience Safe and Educational:
- Limit the time the child spends online.
- Teach children that talking to screen names and in chat rooms is the same as talking with strangers.
- Teach the child never to give out personal information.
- Never give a child credit card numbers or passwords.
- Remind the child that not everything he or she reads online is true.
- Make use of parental control features.
- Provide the child with an e-mail address only if he or she is mature enough to handle it.
- Teach children never to agree to meet in person someone they meet online.
- Teach children to use the same courtesy communicating online as they would in person.
- Teach the child to follow the same guidelines when using other computers, such as at libraries, schools, and a friend's house.
Do you think these steps are necessary? Are they sufficient? I've felt much better since I gave up hope.
I mostly agree. Roger Wright wrote: Teach children that talking to screen names and in chat rooms is the same as talking with strangers. This is where "parental control" should be the most important; show the child how to interact with "strangers" without beeing overly "opened" or "closed". Parental control : sit down with the children to see what they are doing ? or simply rely on software ?
Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
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I was just reading this month's Kiwanis magazine, and in it there is a brief article - Top 10 Steps to Make a Child's Online Experience Safe and Educational:
- Limit the time the child spends online.
- Teach children that talking to screen names and in chat rooms is the same as talking with strangers.
- Teach the child never to give out personal information.
- Never give a child credit card numbers or passwords.
- Remind the child that not everything he or she reads online is true.
- Make use of parental control features.
- Provide the child with an e-mail address only if he or she is mature enough to handle it.
- Teach children never to agree to meet in person someone they meet online.
- Teach children to use the same courtesy communicating online as they would in person.
- Teach the child to follow the same guidelines when using other computers, such as at libraries, schools, and a friend's house.
Do you think these steps are necessary? Are they sufficient? I've felt much better since I gave up hope.
Roger Wright wrote: Limit the time the child spends online. To what? Something like 80 hours/week is proper? Is there a method for determing the best limit? BTW, if the "online experience is safe and educational", if the child spends more time online, it will be more educational. Roger Wright wrote: Teach children that talking to screen names and in chat rooms is the same as talking with strangers. Teach children that talking to screen names is not normal: usually you type things. Roger Wright wrote: Teach the child never to give out personal information. Wouldn't it be safer to teach them to give out false personal information? After all, it's easy to confuse a child, but they are very good at creating "imaginary friends" Roger Wright wrote: Never give a child credit card numbers or passwords. Hey, how will they access pr0n sites? Roger Wright wrote: Remind the child that not everything he or she reads online is true. People who follow this kind of list should remember this too... Roger Wright wrote: Make use of parental control features. And then, suddenly, you see your children really interested on Mozilla on Linux :) Roger Wright wrote: Provide the child with an e-mail address only if he or she is mature enough to handle it. "Mom, we'll get rich! There's this guy from Nigeria..." Roger Wright wrote: Teach children never to agree to meet in person someone they meet online. Wouldn't be better to actually know who your children meet with? Roger Wright wrote: Teach children to use the same courtesy communicating online as they would in person. This won't help much. Think about JS's courtesy in person :) Roger Wright wrote: Teach the child to follow the same guidelines when using other computers, such as at libraries, schools, and a friend's house. "[insert your child name here], when you use computers outside our home, don't forget to configure parental control and block all pr0n sites" If those are the top 10 tips, it was good for our children that they didn't publish the other tips :) I see dumb people
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Roger Wright wrote: Limit the time the child spends online. To what? Something like 80 hours/week is proper? Is there a method for determing the best limit? BTW, if the "online experience is safe and educational", if the child spends more time online, it will be more educational. Roger Wright wrote: Teach children that talking to screen names and in chat rooms is the same as talking with strangers. Teach children that talking to screen names is not normal: usually you type things. Roger Wright wrote: Teach the child never to give out personal information. Wouldn't it be safer to teach them to give out false personal information? After all, it's easy to confuse a child, but they are very good at creating "imaginary friends" Roger Wright wrote: Never give a child credit card numbers or passwords. Hey, how will they access pr0n sites? Roger Wright wrote: Remind the child that not everything he or she reads online is true. People who follow this kind of list should remember this too... Roger Wright wrote: Make use of parental control features. And then, suddenly, you see your children really interested on Mozilla on Linux :) Roger Wright wrote: Provide the child with an e-mail address only if he or she is mature enough to handle it. "Mom, we'll get rich! There's this guy from Nigeria..." Roger Wright wrote: Teach children never to agree to meet in person someone they meet online. Wouldn't be better to actually know who your children meet with? Roger Wright wrote: Teach children to use the same courtesy communicating online as they would in person. This won't help much. Think about JS's courtesy in person :) Roger Wright wrote: Teach the child to follow the same guidelines when using other computers, such as at libraries, schools, and a friend's house. "[insert your child name here], when you use computers outside our home, don't forget to configure parental control and block all pr0n sites" If those are the top 10 tips, it was good for our children that they didn't publish the other tips :) I see dumb people
Daniel Turini wrote: how will they access pr0n sites? This teaches them to be resourceful - there are free sites out there, but as Scott Adams points out, they usually take a long time to access because horny adults hog all the bandwidth. Daniel Turini wrote: Teach children that talking to screen names is not normal: usually you type things. :laugh: Daniel Turini wrote: People who follow this kind of list should remember this too... So true! If I get one more email about IBM and Microsoft paying me money to forward this email to everyone I know, I'm going to start strangling people. I've felt much better since I gave up hope.
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I was just reading this month's Kiwanis magazine, and in it there is a brief article - Top 10 Steps to Make a Child's Online Experience Safe and Educational:
- Limit the time the child spends online.
- Teach children that talking to screen names and in chat rooms is the same as talking with strangers.
- Teach the child never to give out personal information.
- Never give a child credit card numbers or passwords.
- Remind the child that not everything he or she reads online is true.
- Make use of parental control features.
- Provide the child with an e-mail address only if he or she is mature enough to handle it.
- Teach children never to agree to meet in person someone they meet online.
- Teach children to use the same courtesy communicating online as they would in person.
- Teach the child to follow the same guidelines when using other computers, such as at libraries, schools, and a friend's house.
Do you think these steps are necessary? Are they sufficient? I've felt much better since I gave up hope.
I think as with anything else it's important to sit with a child as they first learn to use the internet and guide them through it. Pointing out points in question should come as a matter of course. However many parents just plunk their kids in front of a tv from an early age on so it will probably be in effect the same thing.
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. - Oscar Wilde -
Roger Wright wrote: Limit the time the child spends online. To what? Something like 80 hours/week is proper? Is there a method for determing the best limit? BTW, if the "online experience is safe and educational", if the child spends more time online, it will be more educational. Roger Wright wrote: Teach children that talking to screen names and in chat rooms is the same as talking with strangers. Teach children that talking to screen names is not normal: usually you type things. Roger Wright wrote: Teach the child never to give out personal information. Wouldn't it be safer to teach them to give out false personal information? After all, it's easy to confuse a child, but they are very good at creating "imaginary friends" Roger Wright wrote: Never give a child credit card numbers or passwords. Hey, how will they access pr0n sites? Roger Wright wrote: Remind the child that not everything he or she reads online is true. People who follow this kind of list should remember this too... Roger Wright wrote: Make use of parental control features. And then, suddenly, you see your children really interested on Mozilla on Linux :) Roger Wright wrote: Provide the child with an e-mail address only if he or she is mature enough to handle it. "Mom, we'll get rich! There's this guy from Nigeria..." Roger Wright wrote: Teach children never to agree to meet in person someone they meet online. Wouldn't be better to actually know who your children meet with? Roger Wright wrote: Teach children to use the same courtesy communicating online as they would in person. This won't help much. Think about JS's courtesy in person :) Roger Wright wrote: Teach the child to follow the same guidelines when using other computers, such as at libraries, schools, and a friend's house. "[insert your child name here], when you use computers outside our home, don't forget to configure parental control and block all pr0n sites" If those are the top 10 tips, it was good for our children that they didn't publish the other tips :) I see dumb people
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I was just reading this month's Kiwanis magazine, and in it there is a brief article - Top 10 Steps to Make a Child's Online Experience Safe and Educational:
- Limit the time the child spends online.
- Teach children that talking to screen names and in chat rooms is the same as talking with strangers.
- Teach the child never to give out personal information.
- Never give a child credit card numbers or passwords.
- Remind the child that not everything he or she reads online is true.
- Make use of parental control features.
- Provide the child with an e-mail address only if he or she is mature enough to handle it.
- Teach children never to agree to meet in person someone they meet online.
- Teach children to use the same courtesy communicating online as they would in person.
- Teach the child to follow the same guidelines when using other computers, such as at libraries, schools, and a friend's house.
Do you think these steps are necessary? Are they sufficient? I've felt much better since I gave up hope.
I would say choose a ISP with good built in parental control. Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D
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If I can expand that: Don't run away from home (England) to meet a stranger from another country (USA) who has booked plane tickets to a second country (France) so you can both travel overland to a go to a hotel in a third country (Germany). I think that was the brief summary of Studdabaker's movements.
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
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I was just reading this month's Kiwanis magazine, and in it there is a brief article - Top 10 Steps to Make a Child's Online Experience Safe and Educational:
- Limit the time the child spends online.
- Teach children that talking to screen names and in chat rooms is the same as talking with strangers.
- Teach the child never to give out personal information.
- Never give a child credit card numbers or passwords.
- Remind the child that not everything he or she reads online is true.
- Make use of parental control features.
- Provide the child with an e-mail address only if he or she is mature enough to handle it.
- Teach children never to agree to meet in person someone they meet online.
- Teach children to use the same courtesy communicating online as they would in person.
- Teach the child to follow the same guidelines when using other computers, such as at libraries, schools, and a friend's house.
Do you think these steps are necessary? Are they sufficient? I've felt much better since I gave up hope.
bugger the children wogger how come no one's protecting me? bryce --- Publitor, making Pubmed easy. http://www.sohocode.com/publitor
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bugger the children wogger how come no one's protecting me? bryce --- Publitor, making Pubmed easy. http://www.sohocode.com/publitor
You're a big boy - you'll have to fend for yourself. Practice safe web-surfing - wear gloves.:-D I've felt much better since I gave up hope.
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I was just reading this month's Kiwanis magazine, and in it there is a brief article - Top 10 Steps to Make a Child's Online Experience Safe and Educational:
- Limit the time the child spends online.
- Teach children that talking to screen names and in chat rooms is the same as talking with strangers.
- Teach the child never to give out personal information.
- Never give a child credit card numbers or passwords.
- Remind the child that not everything he or she reads online is true.
- Make use of parental control features.
- Provide the child with an e-mail address only if he or she is mature enough to handle it.
- Teach children never to agree to meet in person someone they meet online.
- Teach children to use the same courtesy communicating online as they would in person.
- Teach the child to follow the same guidelines when using other computers, such as at libraries, schools, and a friend's house.
Do you think these steps are necessary? Are they sufficient? I've felt much better since I gave up hope.
How about not allowing anyone under the age of 16 to even use the internet? ------- sig starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 "You won't like me when I'm angry..." - Dr. Bruce Banner Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- sig ends
