Kidsocial

Kidsocial is a place where you can connect and chat with real world friends, play exclusive Kidsocial games, visit different participating kid based sites, collect achievements, points and cool items, listen to music, watch videos, and share your videos or pictures with your friends. It's a great way to stay connected with your friends and relatives!

Kidsocial has different websites, games, apps and activities that allow you to earn playpoints and special items found only on Kidsocial websites. We're making progress each day and want to make Kidsocial a site both kids and adults can enjoy. Sign up today and start the fun!!!

Visit www.kidsocial.com.

Join them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter.

Sue Scheff: Kids Email - Keeping Kids Safe Online

KidsEmail.org is a safe email service for kids and families. Your kids can now have a safe email account while allowing parents to be aware of any correspondence their children send and receive.

You supervise your children when they go outside to play. Do you know who is contacting your child inside of your home?

Learn more at www.KidsEmail.org

Sue Scheff: Internet Safety - Keeping Kids Safe Online

Another great resource for parents to help keep kids safe online. Visit http://www.safekids.com/ and learn more!

SafeKids.com is one of the oldest and most enduring sites for Internet safety. It’s creator, Larry Magid, is the author of the original 1994 brochure, “Child Safety on the Information Highway” and is also a technology journalist.

Sue Scheff: Making the Internet Safer for Families and Children

Enough is Enough (visit for more information)

Tips on Talking to Your Child Openly and Honestly about Cyberbullying

What can parents do?

Tell your children they do not have to accept any online activity that is meant to intimidate, threaten, tease or harm them or anyone else. Giving bullies attention is exactly what they want, so ignore them as much as possible.

•Your children should never open, read or respond to messages from a cyberbully.
•Do not erase or delete messages from cyberbullies. Your children do not have to read the messages they receive from bullies, but they (or you) do need to keep messages as evidence. To report cyberbullying, it is really important to save as much info as you can. The more you save, the easier it will be to track down the people that are bothering your child. (Save the email, email address, date and time received, copies of all relevant emails, screenshots, etc.).
•Use software to block bullies if they encounter them through chat or IM and use privacy settings on social networking pages.

Encourage your children to talk to you if anybody says or does something online that makes them feel uncomfortable or threatened. Stay calm and keep open lines of communication with your children. Make sure you or your children tell their school if the bullying is school related or involves another student. If you or your children are threatened with harm, contact your local police.

Watch out for warnings signs, such as reluctance to use the computer, a change in your child's behavior and mood, or reluctance to go to school.

Tell your children to guard their contact information. Children should assume that people will use the information on their profile to cause them harm. Tell your children that they should not put anything online that they wouldn't want their worst enemy to find out about. Remind your children that the people they befriend online have open access to all of their posted content and information and they can forward or use any of that information against them.

Remind your children that those who bully want to make their victims feel as if there is something wrong with them, but victims should know that there is nothing wrong with them; it is the bullies who have the real problem.

Sue Scheff: PG Key - Helping Keep Your Kids Online

PG Key - Plug in. Protect. Parent.

Just plug it in... it's that simple

* Control when and how long the computer is used

* Allow kids to safely search online

* Know what your kids are doing online

PG Key is a breakthrough for parents...

...or anyone worried about the dangers kids face online.

It's so easy to use, that any parent or grandparent can just plug it in, and in seconds, have peace of mind that the children they care about are protected.

Visit http://www.pgkey.com/ for more details and a free 30 day trial period!

Sue Scheff: KidSafeOnline

Is this too cute? Well, yes, cute but also a very serious subject and concern for parents today. Gayle Ostic is the owner of KidSafeOnline and has developed an informational and educational site for parents to gain new tools and knowledge for keeping their children safe in space.

Source: KidsSafeOnline

Why KidSafe Online?

Gayle has worked as a systems engineer for various hardware and software companies for a period of 25 years. Given her technical expertise, it was easy for her to understand and look at what her children have been doing over the years between Instant Messaging and the sites like Live Journal, Xanga, Myspace and now Facebook.

It was these sites that spurred her into making sure her daughters were not putting personal info and revealing pictures on them that would help attract the predators. Gayle has always made known her monitoring activities to the children and discussed many of the good and bad things they can get out of the internet.

After working in business for many years she has also taught her children that anything written on the internet and sent out is open to public view. Therefore, it is not an invasion of their privacy for a parent to oversee any activity coming from a computer in their home. It is the parents obligation to see what goes outand also what is sent into their home.

1. Be aware of these activities

2. Acquire parental controls and monitoring software.

This is great advice but where do parents go when they are not comfortable or knowledgeable enough to find,install and use these software packages? KidSafe Online was created to educate and provide just those services.

Gayle Ostic wants to empower every parent with the correct skills to protect their families!

Sue Scheff: Protect Children from Online Crimes

Source: Love Our Children USA

Violence against children is completely preventable!

Keeping kids safe from harm and violence is up to everyone of us!

Be Informed … Be Involved …Make a Difference in a Child’s Life

Violence against children only ends when a child comes forward or a concerned person recognizes the warning signs and reports the abuse.

Sometimes, people may fear getting personally involved or they may be in denial of a child they know who is being hurt. Child violence is a problem on the national and local levels that requires action in the form of caring individuals in each community.

And now the Internet has become a real danger to kids of all ages.

A person’s actions, or lack of action, not only affects the abused child, but everyone in our country.

Click Here To Report Non-Online Violence Against Children

Reporting Internet Crimehttp://www.cybertipline.com/

Sue Scheff: Parents - Teens and Facebook

Today more and more teens are joining Facebook as well as the other Social Network - however Facebook seems to be growing. Why? I honestly don’t know, but I do know parents are enjoying Facebook as much as many kids are. Recently I stumbled over an article on Tangerine Times written by a parent helping us navigate our way through the Social Cyberspace. This topic is critical - as keeping your child’s privacy is important for many reasons. Help your kids stay safe with Social Networking - read this valuable article.

Read more here.

Sue Scheff - iKeepSafe.org - Parents Learning How to Keep Kids Safe Online

2009 will be here, as parents, making a resolution to learn more how to keep your child safe online should be a priority. With the ever expanding cyberworld - social networking - texting etc. the time is now to learn more.

Source: http://www.ikeepsafe.org/

You don't have to be a computer expert to keep your child safe online.
As parents, we want our children to be safe and responsible while using technology. We will have succeeded when each child can recognize and minimize the three main risks associated with all connected technology (i.e., iPods, instant messaging, chat, computer games, game consoles, cell phones, text messaging, webcams). Read More
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Sue Scheff: Internet Safety Help Parents Protect Their Kids Online

Learn more about keeping your children and teens safe in cyberspace with SafeEyes - Internet Safety.

Safe Eyes helps your protect your kids!