Child Safety on the Web

Teaching your children to live safely in the world is one of the most important parental duties. Teaching your children to surf safely provides additional challenges, because often the children are more competent computers users than their parents. How can parents teach their kids to surf safely?

CYFERNet, the Children, Youth and Family Education and Research Network, http://www.cyfernet.org provides excellent resources especially for parents to help deal with these questions and with general parenting issues, too at http://www.cyfernet.org/parents.html. CYFERNet also provides safe, fun, and interesting sites for kids, http://www.cyfernet.org/youth.html.

Yahooligans, http://www.yahooligans.com/, is a search site especially for kids. Yahooligans recommends that parents teach their children to be "street smart" Web users. Their "What you should know as a parent" page, http://www.yahooligans.com/docs/safety/parents.html, offers common sense advice while putting the child safety issue in perspective.

"Yahooligans Rules for Online Safety," developed by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is available at http://www.yahooligans.com/docs/safety/.