Thursday, February 18, 2010

Just a little wisdom to pass on

If you don't have filtering on your computers put it on. #5's molester started with pornography and decided he had to try it out.

Please put some filtering software on your computers. DH likes open dns. It blocks things at the router so all the computers that use the same router have filtering. (At least that is how I understand it to work. There are lots of filtering packages out there.)

And IF you don't know how to get filtering software, regularly check the history and put passwords on the computer.

1 comment:

Marie said...

totally agree. AND... keep the computers in a room where the entire family can access them. Also, randomly come up and see what your child is doing, while they are surfing, include asking them to get up and just plain checking their sites and history at that moment. Also, check for cookies on the harddrive, not just the history because they can learn to delete history pretty young.

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