Protect your children
-monitor all their Internet usage.
Recent surveys on Internet usage suggest that a wide generation gap is opening up between parents and children. In the US, nearly 50% of all children have access to the Internet from home. Of children over the age of eight, one in five has a computer in their own bedroom. Growing up with the Internet means that these children are quite comfortable and knowledgeable about the web and how it works - but that doesn't mean that they are prepared for everything that they might encounter. Child Internet security is an enormously important issue, but how well is it actually being handled?Ideally, all parents should know how to monitor their children's Internet usage, but they often have no idea how to do so. Parents are also dangerously unaware of what their children are actually doing online. A survey in the UK suggested that more than half the 9-19 year olds who go online have been exposed to pornographic material - but only one in six parents was aware that their child had ever seen such images. Some other statistics that should make all parents want to monitor children's Internet usage include:
- 20% of the estimated 24 million children now online have been solicited for sex in the last year
- 25% of children have received pornographic images in the mail, and a tenth of these were were sent by someone the child already knows
- Teens between the ages of 12 and 17 spend around of 25 minutes each day with instant messaging applications, but often have no way of knowing who they're actually talking to
So how do you ensure the safety of your child on the web? One of the easiest and most comprehensive ways is by using our Parental Control software suite. This set of award-winning computer monitoring products enable you to monitor how your children use the Internet. With the help of three separate products, you will be able to ensure the security of your child on the Internet by checking his emails, keeping an eye on his instant messages and chat conversations, and restricting access to websites with inappropriate or offensive material.
Read more about monitoring children's internet usage with our Parental Control Suite!
