ProtecTeens is a video presentation and resource kit created to educate parents about the potential danger to their children from sexual predators on the Internet.
There is evidence that thousands of Idaho children receive unwanted sexual material or solicitations over the Internet every year. Our law enforcement community has been extremely successful in tracking down, arresting and locking up many of these sexual predators. We hope that ProtecTeens will help parents understand the magnitude of the dangers, and take an active role in protecting their children from Internet predators.
This manual provides information on social networking websites such as MySpace.com and Facebook.com. It describes the nature and content of these sites and explains how to find out if your child has a social networking site profile.
Frequent Internet users, including many young people, have developed their own shorthand language to save time typing and hide the real meaning of their messages from others. The dictionary is a parents' guide to decode the acronyms, abbreviated text, and emoticons used in chat rooms, instant messages, text messaging, and blogging.
As mentioned in the video, this document provides some basic information on some of the most commonly used software and Internet services. Using this guide, you can make basic changes to your computer that can help prevent your family from being a victim of an Internet predator.
This contract includes basic safety rules that you and your children can sign together. It sets boundaries for their Internet use, and gives you the opportunity to sit down and talk to them about what is appropriate and what is dangerous.
This manual provides information on Internet safety for children, e-mail scams, spam, on-line shopping dangers, personal privacy, viruses, and much more. It is a wide-range look at the dangers of the Internet, and offers ideas on how you and your children can avoid being victims.
