Comments on: Monitoring Your Children Online - To Tell Them or Not? http://ipparent.com/2006/08/06/monitoring-your-children-online-to-tell-them-or-not/ Get Involved in Your Child's Internet Safety! Sheryl's Internet Safety Parental Guide Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:20:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Kait http://ipparent.com/2006/08/06/monitoring-your-children-online-to-tell-them-or-not/#comment-2 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:58:04 +0000 http://ipparent.com/2006/08/06/monitoring-your-children-online-to-tell-them-or-not/#comment-2 I agree - an open dialogue with your child on any subject is the best way to ensure they'll come to you when they have a problem or question. Internet safety should be a high priority for all parents right now. With sites like MySpace, etc. only gaining in popuarlity it's important to make sure your kids know what is and is not appropriate online and where to turn to if they feel like they're in over their head. In addition to ongoing discussions and making yourself available as a resource, I recommend Cybertipline for older kids - it's a site that lets you report anyone sketchy they may meet by their screen name or email address and then they follow up with local law enforcement. (www.cybertipline.org). The more options kids have to talk to a trusted authority figure about these sorts of things the safer they'll be. I also recommend MySpace's parents safety tips page (you don't need a log in to access, just scroll to the bottom). They have a lot of good resources and tips for parents with kids using the site. I agree - an open dialogue with your child on any subject is the best way to ensure they’ll come to you when they have a problem or question.

Internet safety should be a high priority for all parents right now. With sites like MySpace, etc. only gaining in popuarlity it’s important to make sure your kids know what is and is not appropriate online and where to turn to if they feel like they’re in over their head. In addition to ongoing discussions and making yourself available as a resource, I recommend Cybertipline for older kids - it’s a site that lets you report anyone sketchy they may meet by their screen name or email address and then they follow up with local law enforcement. (www.cybertipline.org). The more options kids have to talk to a trusted authority figure about these sorts of things the safer they’ll be.

I also recommend MySpace’s parents safety tips page (you don’t need a log in to access, just scroll to the bottom). They have a lot of good resources and tips for parents with kids using the site.

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