You see the news stories all the time. Child or young teenager lured by sex predator over the Internet. Its very scary to parents. However, you should not panic, there are solutions that you can look to for your childs safety.
You should not feel that you have to ban your children from using the Internet because of all the bad things you hear about. You should however open a good line of communication with your child. That goes for their offline safety as well as their online safety.
They need to know they can come to you about anything. Simply getting mad at them every time they come to you or not having the time to talk to them puts them at risk because they will stop coming to you and try to deal with problems by themselves.
And that means you will not know what is going on in your childs life. So please, be a parent. Take the time to talk about safety and Internet safety with your child.
You should also get computer-monitoring software for your computers at home. There is software that will monitor all computer activity and give you a report on that activity so you know what is going on with your computer and your children.
The software...