How Can I Tell My Children About Safe Internet Surfing?

         These days most of the kids aged between 10 to 12 years know about the good web sites and the bad web sites. They exactly know which web sites to go and which to avoid. They are aware of web sites which spread spam, spy ware and other malicious threats and damage the working of the computer. Kids these days are quite smart and can teach us adults a thing or two about computers.

         They usually learn all these things from their friends or by simply surfing the internet. In case your kids do not have this kind of knowledge, you need to sit with them and talk about the various problems if they visit any odd web sites. They need to know that a wrong web site can damage the computer and it would be safe to avoid such web sites. You need to explain them that if any web site asks them to submit their personal details such as address or phone number, it would be wise to completely ignore it.

         These are some of the things that you need to put it in their minds.

Keep it simple.  Talk to your children about the dangers of the computer, what the computer is for, about safe websites, bad websites, viruses and blocking pop-ups and things like that.  Tell them about what they can share on the computer and what not to enter.  Ask them about what they are doing and see if you can help them along.  If they are on the computer, they can understand a lot more than you think.  Just be frank with them.  Leave your parental controls on and have the computer in a room visible to everyone.