Watching what your kids are doing online
Before going any further of this discussion, please have a look on the following facts. You may lose something by not reading it and regret in future.
1) 50 percent of people have made personal contacts or phone calls with someone they chatted with online.
2) 25 percent of the children viewed pictures online of the people they chatted while being nude or having sex.
3) 20 percent of the kids were solicited for sex by their virtual friends.
4) An anticipated 725,000 persons have been insistently pursued for sex online.
5) 75% of the children have seen pornographic material online and about 30% of them are maintaining a regular membership on the explicit websites.
6) An estimated 25 percent kids have viewed the internet for the pornographic sites having been informed by their friends.
7) More than a third of students from grades five to eight claim that their parents would object to what they did while online, the sites they visited or with whom they chatted on the internet, if they knew.
8) Usually, 89% of sexual solicitations were asked in either instant messages or chat rooms and 20 percent children between the ages 10-17 has been sexually pleaded online (Journal of the American Medical Association, 2001). Since 25 percent of children online chip into real time chat and more than 13 million use instant messaging worldwide, the threat to children are immeasurable.
9) There are various methods available in the internet by which your child can make designer drugs sitting inside his room using simple ingredients.
Law-enforcement authorities say that children left unaccompanied at their home surroundings after school, may be susceptible to advances from sexual predators.
So you are frightened, are you? Good, you must be. But you can do things to check your kids becoming vulnerable to online threat. Here are some tips.
Have an eye on the sites they have visited, what they are doing there, are they chatting with some specific person for a prolonged time. You need to get those answers. And better, if you can gather it on your own.
You should educate yourself about the potential dangers in the internet that may pose some threat to your child. Find out the ways they gain trust upon your kids. Most important thing is to learn the way to stop them before it is too late.
Install some parental control software in your computers. It will block the explicit websites from being opened and some bad chat rooms as well. It may cost you a little bit extra, but better to be on the safe side.
Do not buy them any laptops even after repeated insists or install your PC in a solitary place. You can have an eye on the kids if they surf the internet before you.
Educate your child about the dangers of internet. If they are grown enough, you can teach a little about the menace of child pornography. Make this like a discussion and do not place a lecture. It may further instigate them doing the wrong things.
Internet has its positive sides also. So, don’t be rude to web. Parents have accountability to our kids. We must take necessary steps to assure that they remain protected no matter what they are doing. That’s why, monitoring your kids is the best option.