Internet Safety for Kids Now

So, in this connected internet world, how do you keep kids on internet sites safe? It’s going to take a multifaceted approach along with a working partnership with your children.

Here’s the huge problem: 79% of kids are accidentally exposed to adult content and images on their computer. (70% of that exposure happens at home.) You can read the sources of that information on my first post.

How can this happen? There is an overabundance of hardcore porn and sexually oriented sites that can appear on your child’s monitor with very little effort or by hitting the wrong key. A simple Google or Yahoo search can instantly yield pornographic – key on the “graphic” -videos, photos, cartoons and erotic audio books.

Slight errors in typing a Web address can take you to sites by mistake that you never intended to visit.

Once the adult material or image loads onto the screen, it can imprint in the brain in a second or less.  In the blink of an eye (literally), the wall of innocence is breached. Once in your boy or girl’s human hard drive, it can never be deleted. Kids on internet sites do not need to see adult images, right?

I was watching a movie many years ago. In one of the opening scenes, a beautiful actress in an elegant pure white dress steps into an elevator. Just before the door closes a man in a ski mask races into the elevator with a knife and proceeds to slaughter the lady. The scene explodes with blood spurting onto the white dress and the elevator walls and screams.

I literally could not turn away fast enough to avoid the imprinting of that scene in my much younger mind.

The image on the left summarizes this problem very well. Once an innocent child sees some of the nastiest things available on the internet, he or she cannot “unseen” them.

One solution recommended by the FBI to preempt this kind of exposure is to install filtering software on your computer.

The best of these programs can be the final defense in a split-second internet world. If all else fails, you may have to count on technology to protect your kids on internet surfing expeditions. The filtering software uses a variety of internal programming mechanisms to block sites with images or phrases or any material related to adult sites and content.

For the very low program price, I would agree that filtering software like My Porn Blocker (TM) would be worth the small investment to give you a final, almost fail-safe method to stop the trash dump to your screen before it starts. There are other programs out there, but I’ve picked this one to promote, due to it’s ease of use, effectiveness and comprehensive approach to adult content. When you buy this program, I receive compensation. So, keep that in mind, also.

I think this program is worth a look, even though the best proactive approach to protect kids on internet sites involves social agreements.