Online Safety

The Big Picture

Discover the digital landscape, its potential risks and ways to protect your family.

Parenting Online: The childproof locks, seatbelts and helmets we use to help keep our children safe in everyday life won't protect them in cyberspace. There we need new and different gadgets and safety tips. Welcome to the new world of parenting online!
Internet Safety 1-2-3!: You don't want to be Internet safety experts. You don't want to devote your life to learning about the technologies and their abuses. You just want to learn how to keep your children safe online, as quickly and easily as possible.
Six Risks Your Children Face Online: In order for you to be able to educate your children about online risks, you need to learn about them first.
Kids' Exposure to Porn: New Findings: "Exposure to online porn might have reached the point where it can be characterized as normative among youth Internet users, especially teenage boys."
Student's Online Behavior: You teach your child the difference between right and wrong, insisting they use proper etiquette and reminding them to look both ways before crossing the street. But in this high-tech age, children and teens need more.
They've Got Mail; You've Got Trouble: Up to date information is hard to find, and parental guidance websites also vary based on a site's ideological orientation, but these sites will all arm you plenty of information on multiple fronts.
What Parents Can Do About Online Safety: Talking with your kids can go a long way towards keeping them safe.