As a society, we are always looking to make things easier on ourselves. But I worry about that and what it is doing to our mental and physical health. You don’t have to look far to see how we have been effected. And the internet has taken us leaps and bounds forward in our drive towards convenience. Without leaving your home you can do your grocery shopping, get a college degree, play poker with friends, plan a vacation. You almost don’t even have to get up from your chair ever. If only the Internet could provide us with a virtual toilet that we can really use!

While shopping online is a great way to find shopping bargains and playing poker online may be a lot of fun and chatting with friends is a great way to stay connected, if you find that you are spending hours every day on the internet, consider whether you may have an Internet Addiction. Many people shop too much online, develop compulsive Internet gambling problem, become addicted to watching porn on the Internet or just waste hours of their time on the Internet in place of facing real life.
Enjoy the Internet. But be careful it does not become an addiction!

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McGruff  SafeGuard buys me some peace of mind but it dose not replace my involvement in the day today lives of my kids. Trust needs to be built up and a delicate balance needs to be achieved between trusting our kids and safe netting their online environment.

 Many do inform their children and use it as an opportunity to address the various concerns, so that the child will understand that there are real and valid concerns. Parents’ best resources are their own kids for information and education on Internet safety since children today are often far more Internet savvy than their parents are. Many problems can be avoided if parents have an ongoing dialog with their kids about their  Internet activity. Of course many parental control software applications can not actually be hidden from a child since the moment they do try to go to an illicit website, the software (such as Optenet PC) blocks them and they see a blocking screen. This in itself can be educational — a sort of reminder that some sites are not appropriate for them, even if they thought they were. In the case where a parent suspects some problem, it can be helpful to take a look at what a child as been doing online. For example, a parent may discover that their teenage daughter is frequenting diet sites and/or sites that act as support groups for anorexia (supporting the phenomena not recovery!) and in this way, learn about a very serious problem early enough to take preventive action.

One of the challenges the Internet presents to us as parents is the easy access our children have to non-filtered information. In the same way we can trust that the local library does not provide our children with books providing tips on how to take drugs, we should be able to create an Internet environment in our home that does not provide access to such information. Keep reading here for more information on how to manage your family’s Internet access.