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Thursday, February 16, 2012

5 Tips for Safe Internet for Children

Internet, although a source of infinite information, but still keep a threat to users, especially for children. But that does not mean our baby should not be familiar with the internet.Here are 5 tips for introducing the Internet safe for children;
 1. Communication This is an important factor for the relationship between parents and their children. Try to establish good communication flow with the baby. When introducing the Internet to children, explain the rules of the game. Do not let your kids online too far. 

2. Limit Time OnlineLet's not put the computer with internet facilities in the child's room. But place the computer in the family room or space where you can control children when surfing.If you need to make a list of sites that may be accessed if they are. Specify the time when their online, certainly not until late at night. American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that if the limit children to be in front of the screen up to a maximum of two hours per day. 
3. Social NetworkingThe children of today would have been familiar with the name chat, Facebook, YouTube or Twitter. Nothing wrong with letting your kids play in it. Just need to be monitored his movements.If indeed your children are old enough, there's no harm in helping them create a profile on social networking. But it is better to use nicknames instead of real names. Do not enter personal data in the profile description. Use photo a favorite athlete, cartoon characters, or other ilustasi as picture profiles.Next is to remind children not to interact with people they do not know through cyberspace.
 4. Identify the problemObservation of children surfing habits. If he violated a deal with the often remain online until late at night does not hurt to act decisively. Stay away they are from the online activity for some time. Because if left to increasingly feared to be. This is where the role of communication so necessary, try to speak from heart to heart without having to pull the vein.Occasionally the parents it's good to check the browser history to find out what sites are frequently visited by your children. 
5. Strengthen Security SystemParents certainly can not be any time watching the kids. As a result, required the presence of software that can fence off the children of the existence of negative content on the internet automatically.
Today there are more applications filtering or parental controls that can be used for your home computer. With this application is expected to block pornographic sites and other negatively charged sites before seen the children.The application also includes software antivirus security to protect the computer as a whole. In addition, parents should do the setting on the search engines like Google to just do a search system that is safe (safe search). So when the kids use Google to search for information, the content that appears will be filtered.

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