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0530-4.    Internet Safety - Notes for parents

Notes for parents

- parents have learned that TV should not be used as a baby-sitter and to monitor the TV shows their children are watching for things like sexual and violent content. Parents need to monitor their children's use of computers and the Internet more than TV as there are more dangers.

- a serious danger for children on the Internet is they may, through something like an online chat room, develop a relationship with a stranger who may harm them. A good analogy for this is, if a stranger (with a paper bag over his or her head)  knocked at your door and asked to spend several hours alone talking with your child, would you let them? That is what could be happening with your child on the Internet. So, monitoring your child's activities on the Internet is very important. There are many web sites with information about this danger. Two that are of interest are:

           http://www.cyberbreach.com/
           scroll down and click on 'Family Safety'

           http://www.livewwwires.com/
           http://www.internetsafety.com
           Offering a commercial product 'Missing: An Educational Kit About Internet Kidnapping'.

- In chat rooms, it is safer to use an annonymous e-mail address from a service like http://www.hotmail.com

- If you use ICQ, be sure the identifying information is minimal. As of July 2001 there will be instructions at
http://www.cyberbreach.com/ as to how to set up ICQ in a safer manner.

- If you create web pages, check the software you are using does not have personal information to add into the html code for author of the page. For example in Netscape, you can look at view source and see what your software has put for author. In Netscape Composer for web page making, the author can be changed in edit preferences.

- http://www.deal.org
   http://www.choix.org/
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police's National Youth Strategy has evolved considerably from the original basic goals of reducing youth crime and victimization. One of the strategy's initiatives, deal.org (Delivering Education and Awareness for Life), has grown well beyond its original focus, when it was created in 1998, of fostering drug awareness among Canadian youth. It has evolved into a comprehensive Internet resource, including pages for parents and teachers. Deal.org aims to empower youth by providing an interactive forum to communicate, research and express ideas. Young people from across Canada and around the world can connect to one another, tell the world what they're doing and get involved in their own communities. The French version of deal.org is choix.org
Deal.org's Cyber Safety section is at  http://www.deal.org/_e/pt/cybersafety.html
Le Sécurité dans le cyberespace de choix.org ce trouve à  http://www.deal.org/_f/pt/cybersafety.html
Of particular interest to parents:
  http://www.deal.org/_e/pt/tips.html
  http://www.deal.org/_e/pt/initiation.html
  http://www.deal.org/_e/pt/netnanny.html

- WiredSafety organization
 http://www.wiredsafety.org/

- from National Academics in the U.S.
http://www.netsafekids.org

- http://www.cyberbullying.ca/
  'Cyberbullying is subterranean because young people fear that parents will take their technology away.'

- http://gladstone.vsb.bc.ca/
click on 'PAC'
click on ' NEW! PARENT INFO Affect of media, Cyberbullying, Survey'
 

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