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being around the kids,” Mercer said.
What can parents
do?
Mercer offers many ways for parents to protect their children from the dangers of Internet, including:
• Learn the technology.
• Keep the computer in a common area of your house.
• Talk to your child about online computer use, and make them aware of the dangers.
• Learn your child’s online habits.
• Use parental controls, filtering software, and/or Internet service providers (ISP) that offer filtering capabilities.
• Maintain and periodically check your child’s e-mail messages and browser history.
• Check your child’s “Favorite Places” list.
Checking the browser history is done very simply by going into the computer’s control panel, click on ‘Internet Options’, then under the tab ‘Settings’, go into *View Files’. Parents can quickly see which Websites have been visited and how long their child has been there.
“Parents can also take further steps to be proactive rather than reactive,” Mercer said. Those steps would include installing software that would filter all incoming and outgoing Internet communication.
According to the Internet Filter Review for 2005, the top two filter software programs are ContentProtect by ContentWatch and CYBERsitter.
Both programs allow the owner to determine what Internet content enters the home, but CYBERsitter also offers an e-mail filtering option.
Of the programs reviewed by Internet Filter Review, the cost range is $30-$50 per program.
Jeanne Spath may be reached at jspath@timespapers.com
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