How to Protect Your Children on the Internet: A Road Map for Parents and Teachers - Hardcover

Gregory S. Smith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0275994724 ISBN 13: 9780275994723

Publisher: Praeger Publishers Inc.,U.S., 2007

Synopsis

Parents and teachers are often ill-equipped to deal with the variety of devices and applications such as email, instant messaging, browsing, blogs, cell phones, and personal digital assistant devices (PDAs) that can facilitate the dangers lurking online. How to Protect Your Children on the Internet offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which youth use such technologies and exposes the risks they represent. At the same time, it provides a roadmap that will enable parents and teachers to become more engaged in children's online activities, arming them with techniques and tips to help protect their children. Smith underscores his arguments through chilling, real-life stories, revealing approaches people are using to deceive and to conceal their activities online. Filled with practical advice and recommendations, his book is indispensable to anyone who uses the Internet and related technologies, and especially to those charged with keeping children safe.

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Review:

"[S]hares the risks of the Internet by detailing recent, real-world tragedies and revealing some of the secrets of online activities. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which youth use such technologies and exposes the risks they represent." - Library Media Connection

"[A] thorough if occasionally geeked-out look at the technologies children are using and the steps parents must take to minimize their kids' chances of having a bad experience online. Smith, the chief information officer for the World Wildlife Fund, shows the 5 million ways your kids can get around the basic barriers many parents set up. He advocates a more deliberate, comprehensive approach, including aggressively limiting your child's Internet use: For middle schoolers, he recommends banning instant messaging, blocking search engines such as Google and denying access to free e-mail services such as Yahoo Mail. The amount of technical detail will liberate some and overwhelm others (hey, welcome to the Internet, folks), but you can always skip to Smith's helpfully specific recommendations, including which filtering and monitoring programs work best." - The Washington Post

"Smith outlines methods for protecting children against online threats. He describes recent tragedies and shows how to protect against specific dangers, for parents or educators of children from age eight to 17. He specifically discusses how to monitor children online, with recommendations for surfing, blogs, and social networking; email; instant messaging and voice-over-IP, cell phones, and PDAs; and talking to children about risks. Information has been drawn from research reports, case studies, child advocacy organizations and web sites, interviews with experts and parents, and the author's own experiences as a parent, technology professional, and educator." - Reference & Research Book News

Synopsis:

The Internet has transformed the way that people research, shop, conduct business, and communicate. But it can be a perilous place for minors. Parents and teachers today are confronted with many threats that they simply do not understand. This book, aimed at parents with children aged 8 to 18, explains the risks of the Internet by detailing some recent real-world tragedies and revealing some of the secrets of online activities, and provides a pragmatic approach to helping parents and teachers protect children against the threats of going online. Parents today are not well-equipped to deal with the variety of devices and applications such as email, instant messaging, browsing, blogs, cell phones, and personal digital assistant (PDA) devices can facilitate the dangers lurking online. The author offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which youth use such technologies and how parents and teachers alike can help protect them from the dangers lurking therein. This book exposes the risks and provides a roadmap for parents and teachers to become more engaged in children's online activities, arming them with techniques and tips to help protect their children.

It includes chilling real-life stories, anonymous Internet experiences, and approaches that real people are taking to deceive and conceal their online activities. He offers an overview of the way the technologies work and provides a roadmap for protecting children if they use a variety of tools and technologies that introduce risk in the first place. Offering practical advice and recommendations, the author arms readers with the information they need to understand how the technologies work as well as how to manipulate them to protect those who use them. This book is indispensable to anyone who uses the Internet and related technologies, and especially to those who are charged with keeping children safe.

About this edition

• Publisher: Praeger Publishers Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0275994724
• ISBN 13: 9780275994723
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216