This focuses more on parental guidance as the main point. Parents should know that their kid's minds are developing as they grow older, they tend to generally know more. Well their task is to deal with it as long as they keep one eye laid on their kid's behavioral acts and the accompany they mix with. The objective is to make sure that their kids grow up on the right path and have a positive state of mind. Social influence plays a big role among children because children tend to learn faster than adults, as they consume information more effective in comparison.

Peer pressure from friends may influence and corrupt children's perceptions. For example; ("Friend A" tells "Friend B" that he observed obscene images of nudity online. This builds curiosity for "Friend B" because he never seen such scenery. Therefore, he then seeks for the appropriate time to be alone and then views online on his own.)

As been said, children can't be blamed for all these because they are learning day by day, but the solution is from parental guidance to prevent such negativity caused. Parents are encourages to be actively involved in their children's education at school, what more as they have authority, while their kids are young, they authorize decision making and advisory to their kids when necessary.

Reference: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/titleiparta/parentinvguid.pdf

Softwares to help safeguard child's while using the Internet

The internet nowadays is inevitably a vital tool in a child's life. It serves as a purpose to educate and expose a child to a lot of things around the world. It builds relationships and allows a child to extend their knowledge to the various cultures and different sets of people all over the world. As mentioned in the previous post by my group mate, this blog is about the safety of kids and the internet.

     While the internet may be a great tool for a child to utilize in their growing stage and learning process, parents should be aware of the potential harm that it may cause their child. It should be their utmost priority to ensure that their child is internet savvy and should be monitored to make sure they do not fall into unneccesary harm. One of the ways that parents could do to ensure the safety of their kids is to get a reliable software installed in their computers that enables parenting control feature.

     What is parenting control feature? It is a feature programmed in most anti-virus softwares that allows parents to control and monitor the use of the internetr by their child. It has no limits in terms of their geographical position, meaning, parents could monitor from technically anywhere they are. It gives them the peace of mind that their child is protected in the cyber realm.

     In my point of view, I feel its important that parents consider this feature to be a part of their anti-virus packages or internet subscription plan so that, their child would not only be learning and exposing themselves to knowledge but at the same time be protected from the harmful things the internet could cause. Apart from that, it also gives parents a peace of mind that their child is protected.


Reference: http://www.softforyou.com/articles_tutorials/parental_control_software.html

Introduction to safety on the internet for both kids and parent's

    As for this topic,my group has chosen the topic Kids and the Internet for our project.So before I start I would like to tell that the internet has its own benefits if used wisely. As for this topic Kids and the Internet, kids this days should be watched by elderly because they tend to visit the wrong links and this would encourage them to follow what the watch and hear.

    For example, if an 10 year old kid keys in the word "Lego" and made a mistake in one letter instead of lego he accidently types an "S" letter at the end and its spell as Legs, This might direct him to pornographic websites. So parents have to perform their duties in installing safety software for their Pc's to have their kids logging onto the right websites such as education websites whereby they can have research done or communicate with their teacher through communication software but this needs to be controlled. Not only that, parents should be computer literate,they should be more of a friend with their kids so that kids will share what they view on the net and so on.


    Taking serious precautions on kids internet activities, will help them benefit valuable informations without logging onto danger zone of the internet.So parent's play an important role in this topic.


Reference: http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/family/net_safety.html