Family / Child Protection Online
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If you are concerned about the use of the
Internet in your home, Focus on the Family Canada has a
booklet, available here online, called Navigating Online: A Family Guide to the
Internet.
This useful resource explains some of the dangers that the Internet can
bring and provides ideas on how these pitfalls can be avoided.
Sometimes you wonder "WHAT" guidelines we should have for our
family online (includes: IM, Internet, email, etc.)? A suggestion from
Kim Komando's site titled, "Kim Komando's 10 Commandments
for Kids Online" may be a starting point for
guidelines and rules for your own children.
REMEMBER: a P.O.S. ("Parent over Shoulder") approach to
online safety is a MUST(!), with the internet-connected computer(s)
being situated in high-traffic areas of the home.
"In our media-saturated world, children are not
only spending too much time watching television, but are spending as
much, or more, time on the computer. Overuse of the computer shares
many of the same negative effects of too much television."
[Source: Mark Sicignano, founding member of PC-Turnoff
Organization, Winnipeg Free Press, 04/30/05]
"A national Kaiser Family Foundation survey found children and teens are spending an increasing amount of time using 'new media' like computers, the Internet and video games, without cutting back on the time they spend with 'old' media like TV, print and music. Instead, because of the amount of time they spend using more than one medium at a time (for example, going online while watching TV), they’re managing to pack increasing amounts of media content into the same amount of time each day."
LINK: News Release
LINK: General Report on Media
LINK: Executive Summary of the Media Report
[Source: Kaiser Family Foundation and the SoftwareTime.com blog section titled, "Family and Technology".]
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