Mid-week Morsel: A Little More Internet Safety

On Saturday, I posted about keeping our kids safe online.  I realize that my post only scratched the surface of ways we can protect our children.  For this week's Mid-week Morsel I decided to give you a few more resources for protecting your little (and not-so-little) ones online.  Let's start with your computer.  Most operating systems have some sort of built-in parental controls that you can set based on your preferences.  Here is information for setting controls for Windows XP, Windows 7, and Mac.  If you let your children on sites like Facebook and Google+, you may be wondering what information can be seen, and by whom.  GoGoStat offers a Facebook monitoring service to keep you in the know.  I also found a Parents' Guide to Google+ from ConnectSafely to help you be sure you are using all the privacy controls available to keep your children safe.  If you have any other tips or resources, please post them in the comments so that other parents may benefit from them as well.

Karissa