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Tools and Tips

Get practical advice and tech tips to help you protect your children while they're online.

How Browsers Work

Look under the hood of a Web browser and you'll be better equipped to ensure your children's online safety.

Parental Controls Beyond the PC

As more handheld devices provide Wi-Fi opportunities for kids to surf the Web away from the home PC, we have tips for stopping inappropriate content

Tech Parental Controls Have Limits

When I write about parental controls on browsers and email accounts, I am hesitant to endorse it all as the best route for parents to take to protect their kids.

Internet Safety Tips for Parents and Teachers

Be aware and involved. It's up to us to teach kids how to use the Internet - and all media - safely and responsibly.

Tips That Thwart Online Predators

Online predators can infect your computer with viruses, they want to steal your personal information and possibly your identity, and they may even want to harm the people who use your computer.

How to Track What Your Children Are Viewing

There are several ways to learn what websites your child has visited and what he or she has downloaded from the Internet. Here are suggestions to help you review Internet activities on your computer without purchasing a software monitoring program.

Internet Safety Tips for Students and Parents

The rules may have changed with the Internet, but you are still the one making them. i-SAFE America has developed this list of tips to protect your children.

Parents: How Protective is Too Protective?

Evan Skinner wanted to make sure her teens were staying safe on the Web. But her efforts did more to alienate her teens at a time when parent/teen alienation is ripe for the taking.
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