Be a Web Safe Kid

While it’s important to talk to your children about online safety, it’s not enough. Limiting your kids online activities – i.e., making rules about what sites they can and can’t visit, what chats they can and can’t enter, and what profiles they can or cannot place on the Web, are all crucial to their safety.

In fact, the ideal is to keep your child off social networking sites altogether, or to let them peruse and chat but forbid a profile. It’s just too scary for your children.

Limiting your kid’s online activities isn’t being an ogre despite what they say. It’s about keeping them safe. The appalling facts are that nearly 15 percent of the profiles on MySpace are for children 14 years old or younger.

Parents don’t limit their children’s online activities to the extent they need to, nor do they monitor what their children are doing when they’re surfing the Web.