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Slogan contest

Blog Contest "Rules and Regulations"

1. Description of Contest
This is a blog-contest announced as post to observe the concerns of adults as participants towards the kids. Each participant is required to provide a slogan of their own depending on quality and creativity of the main topic "Kids and the Internet".

2. Contest Ends
The contest ends on the 1st of April to be evaluated to end result selecting the winners.
(Only 2 winners will be granted prizes)

3. Who can participate?
Participants must be adults to come up with creative slogans they randomly come up with. Each participant has to only post one slogan made by their own, thus it has to be relevant to "Kids usability towards the Internet". Not necessarily to parents who have kids, but it can also be college students or young working adults to relate the slogans to their brothers/ sisters/ cousins, etc.

4. How to Enter and Post the Slogan?
( i ) Go to www.wwwkidsandtheinternet-leena.blogspot.com
( ii ) Insert in the main Contest Page under Comments: Name, Gender, Age, and then slogan under Quotations.

SAMPLE: <JOHNNY TAN> <MALE> <34> <"KIDS CAN BE INTERNET-FAMOUS TOO">

5. Elimination
Participants will be executed/ eliminated from the competition if he/ she takes the slogan from reference online. For each end result of slogan postage, participants need to be aware that researches will be done as remarks to observe the availability and certify slogan.

6. Winner Selection
The winner will be announced as contest ends. The one with the best slogan will be granted exclusive prizes as reward. Judgements and evaluations will be made according to participant's creativity and uniqueness of their slogan idea.

7. Prizes
The winner will be given an educational game for kids usage to be installed into a PC. It's a source of motivation and also a thank-you gift for participating in the contest.

Kids and Youtube

You tube is a video sharing site that allow people to upload and shares original videos. It became one of the popular site after Facebook. We even share those interesting video to our friends through Facebook. We see the latest silly video that everyone talking about. It almost become our daily "must do task" after Facebook. You tube is getting to replace the mainstream media because of people today are tending to face more computer/Internet than the TV and a lot of the relevant agencies were concerned on this channel.

Furthermore, we knew that kids today are very familiar with the Internet. For an example, I have a nephew who had an Facebook account even though he is only 7 years old and the main purpose for him is just to play game. Other than that, he told me that one of the reason he wants a Facebook account is just because most of his friend having it and this made him desired to have it too. From here we can see the kids now is totally different from how we entertain our self when we are kids. There are a high percentage for a kids to receive something that might not appropriate to their age. How does it possible?

Web browsers for kids

There are many things parents have to do to ensure their children have a save internet browsing experience and one of it is installing a browser specifically designed for kids. 

1. KidZui

Kidzui is considered as the most popular kid's web browser and it is either downloadable or have it's plugin installed in Mozilla Firefox. It features games, YouTube site with save mode 'ON' and other useful features for children.

2. PikLuk

This web browser allows parents to control all the contents for their kids to access and also monitor their progress. The parents can disable the sites they feel not save for their child to view. Other than that, PikLuk allows access to dashboard of the PikLuk web browser to monitor the activities and emails.

While the children are browsing internet on PikLuk, the files and documents can't be accessed. It disables file sharing among users of PikLuk for security reasons.

3. Internet Explorer 9

Even Microsoft has jumped into the band wagon of companies to release a special web browser for children. CEOP(Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) teamed up with Microsoft and came up with specially designed Internet Explorer 9 for kids. This browser is only compatible for Windows 7 operating system users and this is CEOP's contribution into Internet Safety.

4. Zac Browser

This browser is the first of its kind. Zac Browser is filled with activities and videos specially developed for children with autism and other special needs. The time of usage can also be controlled thus allows the children to use for certain amount of period only.Moreover, Zac Browser is also available for mobiles and tablets.

5. Firefly

Not much difference from other kid's web browser, Firefly allows parents to set the duration of internet browsing for children. Firefly comes with standard save Google search results and for Windows 7 users, parents can configure parental control to restrict to certain sites.

To keep your JOB as a Parent and your kid's Safety on the internet

Technology today offers many opportunities and it has become a big part of everybody's daily life. At the end of 2011 it is already very clear that the netizen (citizens of the internet) are already having aspects of life revolving to the internet from friendly relationships, entertainment, shopping, school, information, jobs and many others.

While this is going on, it is penetrated some families in this modern era as kids today are becoming the "experts" while some parents are left behind only to see all the evolutions that take place in this unknown field.

Children are usually one step ahead of their parents with regards to technology and that is what parents should be hoping for in the first place. Browse the internet together and see how your child behaves in the digital world. See which pages they visit and observe how they react. As much as parents care for and learns about their children's friends, their habits and places where they hang out in real life, they must observe with the same perseverance and patients in their "digital" life.

Any strict advice or will not work. If you remember, it did not even work for most of you. It is essential for parents to remember, that children consider themselves experts of internet and technology in general. "DON’T" and "SHOULD NOT" should be replaced with "HOW" and "WHY" in order to open a dialogue between children and parents.

Parents cannot stand by their children all day long hence they cannot protect them from any possible danger forever. However, their role is to teach them how to handle any dangerous situation they might face and how to avoid any unforeseen obstacles. Then again, if children do not succeed, they always have a relationship of safety and trust with their parents that acts as a personal bodyguard. 

Knowledge and experience are the key elements that will help parents to handle and prevent any problems that occur in their children’s lives. When experiencing these feelings, sometimes parents act with impulsion and under the rationale of prohibition. However, this prohibition of using technology automatically puts children out of reality and thus it cannot be easily accepted by them.

How are we in real life, you can always do it the same way online. You can always find better solutions, but it depends on how you can conform with the society and how much you know your own child. Take this into considerations for kids are our future.