Child Internet Safety Software
Posted by: Joyce in child internet safety softwware on May 14, 2008
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Child Internet Safety Software. I received another request to look at some “child safety internet software.” Sheesh!
Call me old fashioned. OK. Call me old. I don’t care. I run marathons still, so keep up.
Anyway, I keep getting a lot of requests to give backlinks to quite a few products and specifically product reps that label themselves as “child safety software experts.”
I got one the other day whose website states, “The old standard ‘Don’t talk to strangers’ that kept us safe doesn’t work online anymore.” I got news for them, it NEVER worked. On top of that, can you imagine asking for an endorsement from us when they never even looked at our information? The first tenet we teach is that it is OK to talk to strangers!
I digress.
So, I’m looking at products with names such as, “Spy Agent,” “Family Monitor,” “Big Brother,” “Net Nanny,” and “Cyber Sitter.”
I love the Net Nanny and Cyber Sitter! Hoe many of you put your toddler in front of a computer as their babysitter, no, parent, while your doing something else?
Ah, the joys of ignorant parenting! I still know that the first line of defense is with parents sitting down with their kids at the computer and teaching them the old fashioned way how to be safe online. Yes, there are surreptitious threats to deal with that get deposited onto computers. For those we all need software and help. There are fantasitic programs out there for this and we all should have one. I do.
But to hand off, in today’s world, the responsibility of taking responsibility for your child’s safety online is just ridiculous. What even more ridiculous is the notion that I have to spy on my teenager’s activities online. Ah, I think we left “trust” in the dust decades ago. You have to spy on them why? What did you not do to establish trust and respect when they were growing up?
It is parental responsibility to teach their children, no matter what the ages, HOW TO keep themselves safe online. If you don’t know how, learn. Then teach your kids, whatever their ages, the basics of internet safety. Leave the software for the computer cleaning not babysitting and spying.
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bookmark This Article Call me old fashioned. OK. Call me old. I don’t care. I run marathons still, so keep up.
Anyway, I keep getting a lot of requests to give backlinks to quite a few products and specifically product reps that label themselves as “child safety software experts.”
I got one the other day whose website states, “The old standard ‘Don’t talk to strangers’ that kept us safe doesn’t work online anymore.” I got news for them, it NEVER worked. On top of that, can you imagine asking for an endorsement from us when they never even looked at our information? The first tenet we teach is that it is OK to talk to strangers!
I digress.
So, I’m looking at products with names such as, “Spy Agent,” “Family Monitor,” “Big Brother,” “Net Nanny,” and “Cyber Sitter.”
I love the Net Nanny and Cyber Sitter! Hoe many of you put your toddler in front of a computer as their babysitter, no, parent, while your doing something else?
Ah, the joys of ignorant parenting! I still know that the first line of defense is with parents sitting down with their kids at the computer and teaching them the old fashioned way how to be safe online. Yes, there are surreptitious threats to deal with that get deposited onto computers. For those we all need software and help. There are fantasitic programs out there for this and we all should have one. I do.
But to hand off, in today’s world, the responsibility of taking responsibility for your child’s safety online is just ridiculous. What even more ridiculous is the notion that I have to spy on my teenager’s activities online. Ah, I think we left “trust” in the dust decades ago. You have to spy on them why? What did you not do to establish trust and respect when they were growing up?
It is parental responsibility to teach their children, no matter what the ages, HOW TO keep themselves safe online. If you don’t know how, learn. Then teach your kids, whatever their ages, the basics of internet safety. Leave the software for the computer cleaning not babysitting and spying.
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