Tips for Keeping Kids Safe Online

" Social networking has all the rage among teenagers even preteens but how can you make sure that what your kids are doing online doesn't turn into outrage. Robin raskin knows if she is the founder of living in digital times and she's joining us -- tech Tuesday was -- do's and don'ts to keep the kids safe. On my any personal experiences with -- this."

" And raised three of them at once this happened but you know. Your kids Derek screens on the long and you know you have no idea of a particular area are open window because they're more tech savvy that we go out and you know that. -- life revolves around screens so. I think parents need to. Monitor but not the brokers you know and there are a lot of tools now that the -- monitor benign we're going to be talking about those tools I gotta tell you -- mentioned the fact that her family has Gmail Leonard."

" Her young child has a Gmail account but the parent."

" Gets a copy of any communication and then inside things in that way this is smart enough to know that if you look for those features they're there thinking machines have been. The web mail programs have them but. You gotta look for them and set them up so that's what we're going to let this today let's talk about some other things are some things that I've never before like the G-8. What is could gee this is amazing you know because the biggest fear parents have now is the phone because that's the one that's not -- house and without with the kids and their texting and they're getting messages. Running up bills. Can she is. But a normal phone LG makes the -- Simpson makes them Big -- and all sorts of prices but -- get a service where parents can saying. The phone shut off between ten at night and 7 in the morning this service also with you located child with a GPS -- she's. -- people who you don't -- calling them. And it within managed account and give it's a prepaid so five dollars you've got it so that's like a friend if you're not too sure about -- account for reading my mom and dad could always which is great and right. Norton family got to move on Norton's family on line how does that work so think about parental control software used to be can't go here you can go -- dialogue between parents and kids. On the kid I want to had a new buddy to my chance for a new friend. You get an email and I ask your permission so really each time like kissing watching him each time the parent gets past this is a free download. Asking parents commission for the kids coming up at his website can I say laid on the Internet and we agreed until everything that comes comes by the way it is -- cut off."

" Age I've got a teen and -- in her later years."

" What would you say about seventeen is a sixteen yeah I would say that by then that they don't have good Internet habits. I have problems that our kids doing what is set to think about. Web surfing should be fun for kids the lives -- great place. This is a kid friendly web browser it's got movies it's got pictures it's got web sites over two million. But in a fun little you create an avatar and he goes exploring you get points for your avatar and the bad folks can't breaking into it and they now have a new one called."

" Zooming tube which is YouTube for little kids so kids do we ends anytime you see ZUY you know you're a pretty safe hands RS Marty Carr and I love the name of the --"

" And especially with the schooling your coming on this is a card parents confined for their kids and their kids get points. That they can -- and get this playing educational games to help them with homework. But as they win points they can spend their points uncool places like Amazon or iTunes so with kids that's an incentive to do their homework and learn. When the tide finally a FaceBook there -- some familiar names on here how what is FaceBook doing this okay so the rule is if you're under fourteen according to law a -- not enough belong there. And if you're there and this is where parents can get active go to the privacy settings they are extraordinarily long and complicated but basically you want your. -- to be talking to other kids they know and -- anybody else."

" And you consider those privacy said terrific stuff Robin rescue made me feel better he gave us information we can use thank you very -- like every -- hates me now this. I think kids do that parents love -- annual."