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Top Secret Information
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Keep
personal information Top Secret.
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NEVER
give out your:
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FULL
NAME
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HOME
ADDRESS
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PHONE
NUMBER
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NAME
OF SCHOOL YOU ATTEND
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Or
any CREDIT CARD NUMBERS
- NEVER:
Give your email address, only to your family and friends
approved by your parents or guardian.
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NEVER:
Ever agree to meet someone in person without your
parent's permission.
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ALWAYS:
Get permission from your parents if you want to register
for something or enter a contest.
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ONLY:
Chat in chat rooms that are monitored by adults.
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If someone says something that makes you feel uncomfortable,
tell your parents immediately.
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ALWAYS: Ask your parents before you try to download
any files. Some Internet files have viruses that will
mess up your computer.
Internet Safety - Protecting
Kids - Tips for Parents
- Here are some common sense
ideas to help parents protect their children while online.
Provided by
Enough is Enough. "Lighting the way to protect
children and families from the dangers of Pornography
and On-Line Predators."
- Become more computer
literate and Internet savvy.
- Keep the computer in a
"public" area in your house. Monitor your child's computer
use. Talk with your children about their online activities
and their online friends.
- Check out parental controls
available on your online service. Block adult chat rooms.
Block Instant/Personal Messages from people you don't
know. Install filtering/blocking software, or use a
"clean Internet provider" that filters at the server
level.
- Do not let your children
have online profiles, so they will not be listed in
directories and are less likely to be approached in
children's chat rooms, where paedophiles often search
for prey.
- Tell your children to
never "go private" into a private chat room.
- Tell your children to
never give out personal information, including name,
address, school they attend or teachers' names, parents'
names, etc.
- Tell your children to
never, never, never tell anyone where they will be or
what they will be doing, and they may never meet someone
from online without you.
- Tell your children to
never respond to rude or offensive e-mail, messages,
or postings.
- Do not allow your children
to post, send or receive pictures online. Picture files
generally end with GIF, JPG, or JPEG.
- Monitor the amount of
time your child spends on the Internet, and at what
times of day. Excessive time online, especially at night,
may indicate a problem. Time on the Internet is time
taken from other healthy activities.
- Tell your children to
let you know if anything seems strange to them, if they
are asked personal ("what are you wearing" type) questions,
or if their online friend invites them someplace.
- Changes in your child's
behaviour (mention of adults you don't know, secretiveness,
inappropriate sexual knowledge, sleeping problems, etc.)
may indicate a problem.
- Letting children use the
Internet unattended, particularly talking in chat rooms,
is the equivalent of dropping them off in Central Park
and saying, "Go make some new friends."
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