Internet Safety for Children

I know this is a blog about fashions for children and their moms, but there is a topic that is very important, and should be important to every parent, that should be shared. Because this blog is for parents, I wanted to post it here. I'm talking about Internet safety.

According to the FBI for children from kindergarten through fifth grade, here are some rules to know:

• Never give out personal information online or send pictures to anybody without a parent's permission.
• If somebody is making you uncomfortable, don't write to them.
• Do not meet with anybody in real life that you "meet" online.
• If your child reads something online that makes them uncomfortable, they should tell a parent.
• People online can lie. They can say they are somebody else. For instance, they may claim to be a 12-year-old girl but is really a 35-year-old pedophile. You should never trust anybody online.

I keep parental controls on the computer my children use (and password-protect my own from them as well). It restricts what sites they can see and it keeps a log of where they've been. I keep a good virus software on the computer so hackers can't get through and retrieve information they shouldn't.

If you are unsure how to set up a safe computer system, find computer support to help you. If you have a network in your house with several computers or are unsure how to set up a computer system yourself, contact a good computer support company like Click Consulting for orange county computer services. Not only do you have to protect all of your own personal information, but you have to protect your children who use your computer, or one of the computers in your home.