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Top Secret Information

Keep personal information Top Secret.
NEVER give out your:
FULL NAME
HOME ADDRESS
PHONE NUMBER
NAME OF SCHOOL YOU ATTEND
Or any CREDIT CARD NUMBERS
NEVER: Give your email address, only to your family and friends approved by your parents or guardian.
NEVER: Ever agree to meet someone in person without your parent's permission.
ALWAYS: Get permission from your parents if you want to register for something or enter a contest.
ONLY: Chat in chat rooms that are monitored by adults.
If someone says something that makes you feel uncomfortable, tell your parents immediately.
ALWAYS: Ask your parents before you try to download any files. Some Internet files have viruses that will mess up your computer.

Internet Safety - Protecting Kids - Tips for Parents
Here are some common sense ideas to help parents protect their children while online. Provided by Enough is Enough. "Lighting the way to protect children and families from the dangers of Pornography and On-Line Predators."
Become more computer literate and Internet savvy.
Keep the computer in a "public" area in your house. Monitor your child's computer use. Talk with your children about their online activities and their online friends.
Check out parental controls available on your online service. Block adult chat rooms. Block Instant/Personal Messages from people you don't know. Install filtering/blocking software, or use a "clean Internet provider" that filters at the server level.
Do not let your children have online profiles, so they will not be listed in directories and are less likely to be approached in children's chat rooms, where paedophiles often search for prey.
Tell your children to never "go private" into a private chat room.
Tell your children to never give out personal information, including name, address, school they attend or teachers' names, parents' names, etc.
Tell your children to never, never, never tell anyone where they will be or what they will be doing, and they may never meet someone from online without you.
Tell your children to never respond to rude or offensive e-mail, messages, or postings.
Do not allow your children to post, send or receive pictures online. Picture files generally end with GIF, JPG, or JPEG.
Monitor the amount of time your child spends on the Internet, and at what times of day. Excessive time online, especially at night, may indicate a problem. Time on the Internet is time taken from other healthy activities.
Tell your children to let you know if anything seems strange to them, if they are asked personal ("what are you wearing" type) questions, or if their online friend invites them someplace.
Changes in your child's behaviour (mention of adults you don't know, secretiveness, inappropriate sexual knowledge, sleeping problems, etc.) may indicate a problem.
Letting children use the Internet unattended, particularly talking in chat rooms, is the equivalent of dropping them off in Central Park and saying, "Go make some new friends."