Internet Safety 101 for Parents

How To Keep Our Children Safe In The Cyber World

By the year 2007, it is estimated that there will be approximately 1.5 billion people online, a large segment of which will be children, pre-teens, teens, and young adults. In a recent published Canadian research paper called, “Young Canadians In A Wired World”, 99% of youth interviewed stated that they had surfed the Internet, and 78% stated that they have home access to the World Wide Web. When you consider the fact that in the year 2000 the FBI found at least 23,000 child pornography sites, 420 million pages of pornography, and over 500,000 online photos showing sexual acts involving minors, it becomes obvious that we need to be educated on Internet safety. Topics covered in this 2-hour seminar include:

  • What is the Internet
  • Internet stats and facts
  • When to be concerned when your child is on-line
  • The Four Steps to Internet safety that all parents should know
  • Hardware/software monitoring/protection issues
  • Internet filtering…….the Pro’s and Con’s
  • Internet Chat Abbreviations and Acronyms all parents should be aware of
  • What are Chat Rooms, Instant Messaging, and SMS Text Messaging
  • The Good and bad of “Social Networks” such as My Space and Nexopia
  • Safe Blogging
  • The Dangers of Screen Names and Profiles
  • The Internet Predator
  • The “Grooming” process and the “Lures” used in Chat Rooms
  • How the Internet Predator uses “Social Engineering” to build rapport
  • Actual Social Engineering examples using local teen profiles located on Nexopia and My Space
  • What is Cyber Bullying/Violence and what can be done to stop it
  • The “Dark Side” of the Internet
  • “Mouse Trapping” what is it, and how to escape from it
  • Shopping on-line - how to do it safely
  • What are Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses, Spam, and Spyware and what you can do to protect yourself from them
  • How to protect yourself from Phishing and Spoofing
  • The Dangers of Wireless Networks (Wi-Fi) and what you can do to minimize the threats
  • On-line www resources of value
  • Plus much, much more

It is a fact, that most children know more about the workings of the Internet, than we as parents do. This seminar is designed to educate even the most computer illiterate parent. Knowledge, and the understanding and application of that knowledge, is power. This seminar provides the knowledge and information that parents need to know about the Internet, if their children are surfing in cyberspace

Seminar Length: 2 hours

Seminar Cost: $200.00 + GST

Class Size: Unlimited

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