Comments on: A Parent’s Guide To Online Safety

By: Christine Steendahl

Christine Steendahl — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:42:26 +0000

Thanks for providing this information.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:13:50 +0000

@richard E utilities
Welcome to Family WebWatch. I’m glad you found my post useful.

By: richard E utlities

richard E utlities — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:02:52 +0000

Thats some useful and informative article you have written ken, its an eye opener for the parents. I think if they follow this guidelines then surely they can relax tht their children are safe from the bad contents of internet.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:52:22 +0000

@Laura
I’m glad you found this useful. Thanks for taking the time to say so. Stay safe online.

By: Laura mom of a healthy family

Laura mom of a healthy family — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:01:49 +0000

Hi I’m Laura a SAHM and my kids are growing fast in less than a year they have to know how to use computers and internet.
And it really scares me that they can be more open for bad contents of the internet.

This tips are great. It is very helpful for me….
Thanks and have a great day

By: zubritas

zubritas — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:15:45 +0000

I found this article just in the right moment. It helped me a lot. Thx!

By: Luke Gilkerson

Luke Gilkerson — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:52:46 +0000

Have you heard of Covenant Eyes monitoring and filtering programs? It is a unique program on the market because it gives the user flexibility to filter or simply monitor the Internet or both. A good filtering program is very helpful for children and families, but a good monitoring program is great for adults and children alike who want to be accountable to others about where they go online.

Covenant Eyes monitoring program simply tracks (without blocking) everywhere someone goes online. Then each part of each Web page is rated and scored for its content (scores are based on obscene material). Users choose 2 or 3 people that they want to receive a detailed “accountability report” of all their online activity (emails to them or available to see online 24/7). What this does is it allows complete freedom to the person using the Internet, but it takes away the anonymity of online activity; people are more likely to exorcise self-control when they know that others will be reviewing their whereabouts online.

Our filter is like other Internet filters and it is very robust. You can set filtering to different settings including sites you want to specifically allow or deny, and times of day you want the Internet to be accessed or not accessed. We also have a rigorous scoring system that is constantly updated. It is true that no filter is perfect, but there are some filters better than others.

Covenant Eyes also has a promotional code you can use to get a free month to try out their accountability service. Go to http://www.covenanteyes.com and enter promocode ‘onefree’ to receive a free 30 day trial of the program.