Download free parental control software to keep your kids safe online

 It is really difficult to keep our kids safe online as we cannot monitor all the time what they are doing online?
Parental control softwares usually block unwanted or adult sites but you need to be informed about their activities while surfing online. 'Norton' software developers has created parental control software to help them keep safe online. Before getting more information about the software, just check these statistics:

Some facts about use of computer and internet among our kids:

• Kids spend an average of 40 hours a month online.
• 32% of teens clear the browser history to hide what they do online from their parents
• 63% of teens surveyed admit they know how to hide what they do online from their parents
• 22% of teen girls say they have sent or posted nude or seminude pictures or videos of themselves online.
• 32% of teens surveyed said they’d been bullied, threatened or otherwise harassed online. Yet less than half of those teens reported it to their parents or another adult

 

 It’s important for you to know how your kids are spending their time online, and best way is to educate them. Another important step is to monitor their online activities. "Norton Online Family" offers a free software for all parents to keep their kids safe online. 
 
How it works?

 

- See your kids’ online activities at a glance: Easy-to-read activity reports give you the inside scoop on what your kids do online. In just minutes, you can find out what sites your kids visit, what they search for, who they chat with*, and what social networking sites they spend time at. You’ll get to know your kids better and gain a deeper understanding of their online interests, so you can protect and guide them

 

- Whether you’re at work, out of town, or simply away from home, you can log into Norton™ Online Family and see what your kids are up to online, in real-time. You’ll see what web sites they visit, what they search for, who they chat with* and more. It only takes a minute. And you can check in anytime, from any computer connected to the Internet or your smart phone.

 

 Norton Online Family alerts you via email when your kids do something they shouldn’t, such as attempting to visit a blocked site or exceeding their allotted computer time.

 

'Norton Online Family' says:
We want all parents to be able to protect their children and provide a safer Internet experience for them. So we’re offering Norton™ Online Family to all families, free of charge.

 

 Do you want to install Norton Safety Minder? This software is easy to install and use and it is only 11.6 MB.

 

 DOWNLOAD NORTON SAFETY MINDER

Use kids search engines to find child safe sites

Either you are a teacher, parent or student and scouring the internet for any kind of information, better to start searching at 'Kids Search Engines' which provide child safe and family friendly links. Kids or students are also advised to use these safe search engines for search purposes.

• Smart Zone:  These Web sites have been specifically selected for educational use by EdView.  
• 'KidsClick' :  Excellent site created by librarians with a search engine of appropriate educational sites for students.
• K-12 INFOMINE Search Screen:  This is a searchable collection of instructional web sites
• Berit's Best Sites for Children: Search page:  Seach Berit's Best Sites.
  
• Education Planet - The Education Web Guide:  This is a searchable collection of educational web sites.
  
 
• Education World:  Large web site of educational links and a search engine feature to search these links.

• SuperKids SuperSearch:  This is a collection of educational web sites with a search feature as well as categories.
• K-12 World! SecureSearch™ :  A SecureSearch is safer for students and other users because it does not search the entire Internet, only those sites that have been approved for educational use.
  
• Schoolwork.org:  This is a searchable site of educational web sites.
  
• Awesome Library - Education Search Engine:  Database of 110,000+ sites related to educational topics.
  
• Awesome Library - K-12 Education Directory for Kids:  Search engine with a kids category. (limited results)
  
• Blue Web'n Refined Search :  Search engine of good educational sites, with ratings and grade levels. However, this is a fairly small database, so use one or two keywords only.
  
• StudyWeb:  Doesn't give descriptions with first search results and some terms were hard to guess at the relevance. But the next level gives good descriptions of sites with ratings and approximate grade level provided.
  
• ThinkQuest:  This is a collection of educational sites created by middle and high school students for the ThinkQuest Contest.
  
• LookSmart: Exploring World - Reference & Education k-12 - For Teachers - curriculum content:  This is a search engine that searches educational curriculum content information gathered by educational sites.
  
• LookSmart: Exploring World - Reference & Education k-12 - For Teachers - Lesson Plans:  This is a search engine that searches lesson plans gathered by a number of educational sites.
• The WWW Virtual Library:  Searchable collection - may not be just geared to kids
  

Source: 'Educational Search Engines'

Useful links:
* 'Kids search engines and directories

* 'Ivy's Kids Search Engine Resources

* 'Child-Safe Search Engines and Educational Directories'

* A List of Education Search Engines