Tag Archives: Internet safety
New Study Reveals Interesting Facts about Kids and the Computer
As a child in the 70s (ooops, I am telling my age), a lot of emphasis was placed on playing outside. Kids seem to be getting away from outdoor activity. A new study from the Kaiser Foundation, kids between the ages of 7 and 18 spend more than seven and a half hours a day [...]
What do you want to know about Internet safety or KidsEmail.org?
Parenting has never been an easy job. In the past 15 years, the Internet has become something else that parents have to monitor.
We are committed to keeping kids safe online. If you have a question about Internet safety or our services, please post it here. We would love to answer your questions.
Finding Sex Offenders in Your Area
Sex offenders don’t only prey on children online, they look for them in their neighborhoods. Stringent sex offender laws have required those paroled for sex offenses to register online. If you are looking for this information, you have two important sources:
1. The National Sex Offender Registry (http://www.nsopw.gov/Core/OffenderSearchCriteria.aspx?Advanced=1) allows you to search for an offender by [...]
Don’t Wait Until It is Too Late
When a child goes missing, one of the first things parents and the police do is go through the child’s emails and social networking accounts. I wonder why the parents waited until the child was missing to know about their online activity.
We all want to give our children the room to grow and sometimes that [...]
Are Your Kids Really Safe?
I have been talking with other bloggers and moms this week. They have raised some great questions about Internet safety and our kids. I thought I would address a few here:
1. We have parental controls through our anti virus software. Isn’t that good enough?
Parental control software will flag certain words and images and keep your [...]
Have You Told Your Children Not to Talk to Strangers Online?
We have told our children not to talk to strangers, not to take candy from strangers and to never, ever go anywhere with a stranger. Teaching our children to avoid strangers online is more difficult. That’s because many predators come across as friends. They earn a child’s trust and use that trust as a way [...]
Lessons from a Cheesy Cop Show
I watch a lot of Law and Order—all three versions. Yesterday I was in heaven. USA was having a Law and Order SVU marathon and at different times during the day, the other shows were on different networks.
But during one of the last episodes of the day, I was reminded of a sobering fact. The [...]
Is Santa Bringing Your Child a Computer?
Many children get their first computer from Santa at Christmas. Unfortunately as many of them begin to explore the Internet for the first time, they are lured by spammers and even worse, online predators. Jacob Andersen, founder of KidsEmail.org, a company dedicated to keeping children safe online, said parents need to think now about how [...]
Illinois Promoting Internet Safety
The Illinois Attorney General has a statewide contest for kids. Read more here:
http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2009/12/15/09973463/index.xml
Don’t Count on the FTC to Keep Your Kids Safe Online
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/ftc-drags-out-old-tired-ideas-for-protecting-kids-online.ars
