Teen Internet Safety

Teen Internet Safety is a growing concern and it's a topic every parent should be interested in. First let me say I as a parent believe in the
"innocent until proven guilty" approach to parenting.

I also believe that when you come across "the bloody knife" you investigate. I am not here to be my children's best friend I am their parent. As their parent it is my job to keep them safe from not only all the predators out there but also from themselves.

Teen Internet Safety begins with us, the Net Wise Parent. We as parents need to set forth rules for the appropriate use and behavior while using the computer. We the parents must also discuss this with our children and educate our children as to the pitfalls and dangers on the net. The first place to start is with an Internet Safety Contract.

This contract states what is allowed to be disclosed over the Internet and what is not allowed to be disclosed. The Internet Safety Contract also states any other online behavior that must be followed and the discipline that will happen should it be broken. Once completed the parents and children read the entire contract and sign it. It must then be hung by the computer in plain sight.  

Click on the link below and print off the contract or write your own.
Here is a Internet Safety Contract feel free to print it off and use it.

Teen internet safety begins with us the parent, we have to make our children aware of the internet predator. We also need to make them understand that the internet predator is real, and is a real threat to them.

Once our children are well informed young adults about the internet predator, and about all the online dangers there are. We as parents must let them go and let them do it on their own right? NOT A CHANCE!

We as parents must watch our kids and monitor what they are doing. Remember were active well informed Parents. Don't think you have a problem great but lets check to make sure. Internet safety rules are for everyones safety. Safety rules are meant to keep them safe and to stop problems from starting in the first place. These internet safety rules may help you get started.

Teen internet safety and chat rooms go hand in hand. Chat room talk is very confusing especially with all those Acronyms / computer vocabulary the kids use. Do you know what it all means? You should know what it all means or have the resources to find out what it all means.

Do you know what "BTW my b/f was ROFL and OBTW PAW." means? Well it means " By the way my boyfriend was Rolling on the floor laughing and oh by the way Parents are watching." If you hear or see alot of Acronyms / computer vocabulary being used and don't know what they mean, Check out this page full of the most common acronyms being used.

Hey I just realized I may have gotten ahead of myself. I talked about Acronyms and how confusing they are and I didn't even ask you if you knew what a chat room is or the dangers of them. Well let's talk about chat rooms.

Hi glad to have you back. Any parent that has a child especially a teen that has access to the internet should be aware of all the pitfalls and dangers online. This article written by Harlan Coben titled
The Undercover Parent is a must read for all parents.

This is a small excerpt from that article.

Today’s overprotective parents fight their kids’ battles on the playground, berate coaches about playing time and fill out college applications — yet when it comes to chatting with pedophiles or watching beheadings or gambling away their entire life savings, then...then their children deserve independence?

Some will say that you should simply trust your child, that if he is old enough to go on the Internet he is old enough to know the dangers. Trust is one thing, but surrendering parental responsibility to a machine that allows the entire world access to your home borders on negligence.

to read the entire article click here.

Do you know if you have a teen internet safety problem? Don't guess let's find out together. Here is an easy way to see where your computer has been. If all the history files are gone we can still find out where your computers been. Let's find out. If your computer user is that smart that they have gotten rid of the hidden files there is still another way of finding out where your computer has been using a dat file reader. Let's look at that way.

Hey welcome back, Remember who we are? We are Net wise parents and we are an active well informed force in their kid's internet safety. I know some of things you have read on this site must have shocked you. Ok well maybe they didn't shock you, if they didn't you already know the problem. Let's work together to make a safer environment for our kids.



We as well informed active parents in teen internet safety will at some point need to block a website. Maybe we need to block myspace or facebook maybe it's xanga or even hi5 the kids use them all. Let's take a tutorial on how to block a website.

In the method we just looked at we used Internet Explorers Content Advisor to block myspace and I showed you how to add other sites to it as well. There is another way to block a website by using the host file on your computer. Here I show you how.

Facebook, Xanga, Hi5 and Myspace are all social networking sites and there is nothing wrong with them if used properly. The problem is to many people misuse them, let's look at Myspace safety.