Parentalk Useful Contacts

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Useful Contacts: Internet Safety

Always keep your personal details (name, address) private. It's like
giving out the keys to your house!

Your personal password is your own special identity, so keep it secret and don't share it even with your best friend or someone who sound official.

Making new e-pals whilst on line is cool, but tell your parents about who you have met and introduce them to your new friends.

If you want to meet someone you have met in cyberspace, ask your parents/carer's permission, and then only when they can be present.

There's great stuff on the Net, but some bad stuff too! So always tell a parent or teacher if you come across anything which makes you feel uncomfortable.

Chat can be fun, but don't hang around in a chat room if someone makes you feel uncomfortable or worried. Remember you're in charge out there!

For further advice and tips on how families can get the best out of the net see the Childnet site at
www.childnet-int.org/safety/ which includes good wider resources where families can obtain help keeping their kids safe online.

Childnet has also just launched a site called www.chatdanger.com to help warn children of the threat chat rooms pose to child safety.

There are currently a number of Internet filtering products available to parents which can be effective at screening out much inappropriate material for children. For the best review of these filters see http://kids.getnetwise.org/tools/

Disney.co.uk Safe Surfing Site Disney.co.uk Safe Surfing (www.disney.co.uk/safesurfing) promotes the basic principles of web safety to young surfers and their computer- shy parents. The Safe Surfing content includes an interactive comic starring Doug, the popular animated hero of TV and film, who learns about how to stay safe on the Internet via a series of incidents. At each stage, you can choose one of two options and Doug will tell you whether you are right or wrong. There is also a print-out Safe Surfing charter which can be customised for a child, a family or even a whole class. It can be signed and stuck on the wall by the computer to remind everyone of how to stay safer on the Internet.
Disney.co.uk is the UK sister site of Disney.com, the world's leading kids and family entertainment site. Disney.co.uk includes new and constantly updated content developed specifically for a UK audience. Children and their families can test their skills with games, steer the action in interactive adventures and stretch their brains with mind-expanding fun. It also features Safe Surfing tips, an interactive information section designed to help families use the net wisely. British Disney fans can also get the latest information on Disney films, videos, DVDs, video games and CD-ROMS, as well as find out what's happening at Disneyland Paris, Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland California and catch up with news from The Disney Channel. Disney.co.uk is part of the Walt Disney Internet Group (NYSE:DIG) for more information visit the Company website www.dig.com.



Innocence and Integrity Innocence and Integrity is a site offering advice on how families can protect themselves and their children in the area of media, especially the internet and TV. For more information visit the site: (www.innocenceandintegrity.com)

Top Tips & Quotes

Your kids need constant reassurance that you love them for who they are, not what they do.

Never link your love for your children with your expectations of them.

Showing your kids that you love them no matter what lets them know they're valuable and builds up their self-esteem.

Proving to your kids that you love them helps them cope with inevitable failure and disappointment, and gives them the confidence to try again.

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