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Is Your Child At Risk Of Being Lured By A Stranger Online?Discover How You Can Prevent Your Child From Becoming A Predator’s Target And Your Worst Nightmare!Dear Parent,Children being are approached online by people they don’t know at an alarming rate. The majority of them are under the age of 15. Every year the percentage of child victims from this epidemic continues to grow. Is your child in danger of becoming a statistic?Do you know what they’re doing when they’re online?Any parent with a child knows that the thought of their child getting mixed up with an online predator is nothing but trouble. Millions of children log on the internet each and every day. It used to be that the television dominated most of their time. Now with the internet, television is just a passing memory.Just like adults, children use the internet to surf and communicate with their friends. However, every day they access online is another day where they can get into something the (more…)

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“[S]hares the risks of the Internet by detailing recent, real-world tragedies and revealing some of the secrets of online activities. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which youth use such technologies and exposes the risks they represent.”–Library Media Connection;>“[A] thorough if occasionally geeked-out look at the technologies children are using and the steps parents must take to minimize their kids’ chances of having a bad experience online. Smith, the chief information officer for the World Wildlife Fund, shows the 5 million ways your kids can get around the basic barriers many parents set up. He advocates a more deliberate, comprehensive approach, including aggressively limiting your child’s Internet use: For middle schoolers, he recommends banning instant messaging, blocking search engines such as Google and denying access to free e-mail services such as Yahoo Mail. The amount of technical detail will liberate some and overwh (more…)