Protecting Our Family From Internet Predators

Protecting Our Family From Internet Predators is profoundly important.   My son was 10 when he clicked on a comment in a children’s Lego site that led him to a pornographic site. We had an internet safety protection service but it didn’t work to protect our son.  Now, we use this experience to teach and train our son.  What was an evil intention, allowed us to have a critical parenting conversation.

As a mother of 6 children, 5 of whom are still living at home.  It is NOT an option to NOT have protection on my computers, cellphones, and social media.  Electronic devices are part of our daily lives.  We use them for school, work, research, and fun in my home.

Protecting Our Family From Internet Predators

Did you know?

• Most kids are first exposed to porn at less than 11 years of age.
• An unsolicited image is the beginning of a long battle with porn addiction?
• 1 in 5 children ages 10-17 has been approached for sex online.
• 57% of kids have accidentally accessed inappropriate material online.
• 75% of these young people do not tell their parents about these incidents.
• The porn industry is now the 7th largest industry in the U.S.?
• Unprotected Internet access can lead to identity theft, cyber-bullying, and social network dangers.

What happens in the privacy of a cell phone or computer can affect everyone in the family. Young children are not generally malicious, but they are curious and trusting. Kids innocently and easily get into trouble online without awareness of the consequences. They need protection from others and themselves.

Oh, how I wish with all my heart that we did not live in a world where things like pornography existed.  But it does and we must not hide from the issue but interact with the fact with wisdom.

There are many excellent Internet Protection Programs that are easy to install and set up with tons of options for parental controls.  You decide all the settings for your family.  You can select settings based on each individual family member’s age, internet needs, person’s interests, or temptations.  Parents can block and add sites that you wish to allow.  It is as simple as copying the address and clicking the add or block button.

For our family, we chose the Net Nanny Family Protection Pass which is the#1-Rated Internet Filter.  This is by far the highest value and thoroughly covered all our computers and devices with internet access for one low yearly fee.     

Here are just some of the features Net Nanny supplies.

	Internet Filter Be in control of your internet. Set filtering for 18 categories of online content to either block, warn, or allow for view.
	Block Pornography Warn or block access to pornography and other adult content
	Time Management Set the total number of Internet hours in a day or set specific times of the day when your child can be online.
	Mask Profanity View a web page without being bombarded by vulgar language.
	Social Media Monitoring Net Nanny Social helps protect kids from online threats and monitors activities related to your child’s “friends,” cyberbullying, sexual predators, privacy concerns, and reputation-damaging pictures or videos.
	Alerts and Reporting Receive reports and mail alerts about your child’s online activity.
	Remote Admin Check usage reports, change your child’s profile settings, and much more, from any computer with an Internet connection.
	User Profiles Use preset user profiles or customize settings for each family member; unlimited user profiles for each computer.