Guiding Your Children's Internet Use
Condensed from 1998 Focus on Family By Rose Rancap, FAMILIA-Marcelo, South 1 While the internet as an unregulated medium offers unprecedented opportunities to enlarge the scope of information available to all users, it provides children equal access to materials that may pose danger to them. The regulation of child's use of internet is the responsibility of the parents. Providing a safe and rewarding experience for children requires equal commitment to protection from potential online problems and socialization towards appropriate and productive internet use. PROTECTION: Guiding children and teens in internet use is similar to guiding them in the use of other things that share elements of benefit and danger. Parents can provide explicit instructions, guidance and boundaries to their children about what they consider inappropriate activities. Build good boundaries: Internet access should be on computers in open family areas where use can be monitored. This also reduces temptation