How young is too young to be using the internet? What safe guards to you put in place to prevent your youngins from becoming victims of internet preadators? Do you but filters on, use special broswers or programs? What websites have you introduced your little ones to?
Are there any programs to run on your computer to let a little kid push buttons, move the mouse and make things happen – to get them used to the computer?
Hit us up in the comments and for those of you out there that are young yourselfs your going to get older and have kids someday so you can participate as well. Hit us up in the comments or email info @ nycomputerdoctors.com .
TheExpectingAdmiN_ _
I love that picture… 
Is that too young?
Is that too young?
It’s never to early and they are never too young!
So EduBuntu @ http://www.edubuntu.org/ looks to be a good choice for an OS and set up favorites for sites like:
http://www.noggin.com/, http://www.pbskids.com/, http://www.nickjr.com/ , http://www.playhousedisney.com/ , http://www.poissonrouge.com/
ALWAYS watch your children – let them browse but watch over their shoulders and be there for their questions. Because you know they will have them.
Thanks to Sarah from http://clanmcgrath.blogspot.com/2007/06/kids-internet.html
Keep em’ coming ill update them as more come in.
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October 6, 2007 at 1:59 pm
If you are using Windows, create a new limited account for the kids.
If you are using Google then go to the search page, click ‘preferences’ and enable safe search filtering. The anti-malware program called ‘Spybot – Search and destroy’ has a large blacklist which works for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera . After updating click on the shield labelled ‘immunize’. Then click on the green cross. There are a lot of horrors out there and even a typing error can land you in them. I wish I knew more.
January 14, 2008 at 12:01 am
Pretty good protection from porn sites, and it’s totally a free service: http://www.openDNS.org
How it works: you use them as your domain name server (DNS) instead of your ISP, and then you can set your account to block porn/other objectionable sites. Totally configurable and for FREE. The only way around it is if your kid goes to some host lookup site and gets the IP manually, they can enter that into the browser and access the site. Most kids won’t know how to do this tho.