Are the Kids Safe?

As parents, paramount in your minds are your kids. Always, your concerns are their well-being. What is beneficial for them, what is healthy for them, what is productive for them. On top of it all, is what is SAFE for them. Safety first.

Gone are the days when, once inside their rooms,kids are safe. Protected by the walls of "home," keeping them safe from the dangers outside. Not anymore. Kids need not be out in the streets to experience dangers, particularly of exploitation and harassment. The danger is right inside your home and you are paying good money just to be connected to it. Ironic, isn't it? It is the internet!

The internet, this so called information highway, is the most dangerous route traveled by kids these days. Do you know that your kids can become innocent targets of the unscrupulous and perverts in the internet?

Only your parental concern and parental love can protect your kids from becoming victims, while surfing the net. Here are some of the things parents should do:

*-*Parents,at the risks of kids wrath, should endeavor to know what web sites, their kids are visiting. Never, repeat, never allow kids below eighteen to enter chatrooms.

*-*As much as possible, a parent should be with kids as they look for something in the internet while doing their homework.

*-*Parents should make it a rule that surfing the net is for homework purposes only and, definitely, not for "goofing" around or doing stupid things.

*-*Parents should keep track of their kids' internet hours, which must be under strict parental supervision. Gaming time should be kept to a minimum, too. This will prevent gaming addiction.

*-*Parents should pay attention to ratings of the game their kids are playing and should not hesitate to use parental control, when necessary.

Children may feel that doing all the foregoing is a little bit "too strict," by today's kids' standards, but they will, eventually, realize that you have their best interest in mind.

Parents should not renege in doing their parental duty. Otherwise, they will be giving society more delinquents to deal with.