1. Parents' Concerns on Children's Online Safety
Kids would rather advance to the net at home especially in summer vacation when they
are tired of doing sports or taking trips outside. At the same time, most parents do take
thought for the network security. And many of them begin to use a kind of Parental
monitoring program to prevent their children from Internet addiction. With the Internet,
kids are able to learn abundant knowledge with ease without taking curriculum at school,
which can rouse their motivation and interests for learning.
Whereas, the Internet is such a massive domain, child can be exposed to improper
contents, such as pornography, prejudice and force, this is really the cause of parents
anxiety, and periodically kids may unintentionally attacked by malicious software,
spyware, trojan, phishing websites causing computer shut-down, bank account cheating,
privacy divulge and even poison to your kids' mind. That's why parents use the Parental
control software to filter kids' online behavior and ensure network security for their kids.
A study has warned that eight out of ten children between the ages of ten and fifteen
advance to the net, posting personal profile in social networking sites like Google+,
Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and StumbleUpon, gossiping online via IM application like
MSN, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, Gtalk and so on. One day, you fortuitously find loads of
non-acquaintance on your children's friend lists, these unknown persons are not
playmates, friends or family members, but people from all over the country. How do
those strangers find your child? As parents, you would firmly worry a lot. Are those
person pedophiles? Pedophiles are hiding out somewhere and kids are already targeted,
and they cannot realize the menace until parents indicate and tell them the risk of over
exposure of personal profile and the significance of self-protection.
Kids and teenagers also enjoy sharing files such as videos, audio, games, photos on the
Internet via Peer to Peer client, safety problems also exist because the IP address can be
found by the Internet hacker if you were not that lucky enough, and then their PC would
be remotely controlled by the hacker, the hacker can have free access to any documents
and any action of the computer once it is connected to the Internet.

2. As parents, what could you do?
1. Block you kids' access to the Internet
2. In windows OS, create a admin Account
3. Use parental control monitoring application to observe, and control kids' online actions
At present, there are lots of Parental monitoring programs that can be useful to guarantee
network security for kids. Most of these programs have the following features in
common:
1. Take screen snapshots in real-time.
2. Monitor and track sent & received Emails
3. View and shield instant message
4. Monitor and block website visiting
Ensuring online safety for your kids is parents' responsibility, every coin has two sides
while the Internet is a double-edged sword, Internet can bring your children lots of
benefits with affirmative and healthful contents and, as well, do damage to your kids.
Therefore, Parental Control can be helpful, and taking appropriate plans to protect kids
from network harms become more and more concernful in our life now.