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To all the parents of Mr. Miller's 2rd grade class,
It is my hope that you will find this site helpful for yourself and fun for your child. Some of you may have concerns regarding the use of the internet by your children. For certain, many of your concerns are warranted. Fortunately, there are steps to help greatly reduce the likelihood of your child seeing inappropriate material. The following are suggestions to help ease the use of the internet:
-The most obvious is to make sure your child does not use the internet in an unsupervised manner.
-Your children should not be permitted to use chat rooms. The only exception to this should be under adult supervision.
-A very good site for information on protecting your children from the dangers of the internet is www.protectourchildren.com.
-Below you will find an article on ways you can block out inappropriate material. If by chance these do not serve your needs you can do a search of parental controls online. A good search engine for finding parental controls would be www.go.com. In the search box, type in +parental +controls. This should get you started.
Sincerely,
Mr. Miller
BROWSERS WITH BUILT-IN CONTROLS
In Internet Explorer, go to the Content Advisor by clicking on View, then going to Options and clicking on the Security tab. The default rating system is RSACi (meaning it looks for the 35,000 or so sites with the RSACi tags on the pages), though parents can plug in any PICS-compliant system. The controls have slider bars for blocking different levels of nudity, sex, violence and language.
Parents can also choose to block all unrated sites. But that means your kids can't get into the vast majority of Web sites in the world, including our parent site at ZD Net (talk about throwing out the baby with the bathwater). The other option is to allow all unrated sites to get through.
If you're accessing the Web via AOL, use AOL's parental controls (Keyword:
Parental) to block chat, downloads, mail, newsgroups and Web sites for up to
five screen names. If you want, you can give your teenager a Teen Account to
restrict access to only newsgroups without downloadables and to a subset of Web
sites. If your kids are under 12, you can limit them to the Kids Only area of
AOL and its approved Web sites.
--Eric Griffith,
Taken from the following website:
http://family.go.com/Features/family_1997_10/famp/famp107noway/famp107noway8.html