Self Defense Protection - Keeping Kids Safe Online

Written by Michelle Annese


We all know that keeping our kids safe onrepparttar internet is a parent's priority lately. Here are some new tips and strategies to give parents solutions on how to protect their children.

The biggest trick some child predators’ are using these days is to pretend to be a kid, in a kid site chat room.

Child predators are talkingrepparttar 110597 lingo, misspelling words, having simple conversations to gain trust with children onrepparttar 110598 internet.

But do you really know just how fast they can find information about your child or your family?

This is one website every parent must see:

http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/ceos/index.html

Scroll down torepparttar 110599 bottom and you will see a section called

Interactive Tools

Then click onrepparttar 110600 link

'What Can Be Revealed in Minutes About Your Child Online'

It is a downloadable tutorial that shows parents and kids just how someone can search for information about you or your child, if they frequent chat rooms, or send out any type of posts onrepparttar 110601 internet.

It shows you how a stranger onrepparttar 110602 internet can find out EVERYTHING about your child in about 45 minutes, with evenrepparttar 110603 smallest piece of information to start with.

Here isrepparttar 110604 direct url forrepparttar 110605 tutorial:

http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/ceos/Multimedia/NCMEC%20Video%202.exe

So what will a child abductor do with this information?

Even if they do not know what your child looks like, they can wait for them to come home from school, call them by name, call them onrepparttar 110606 phone.

And if they walk home from school, they can come in contact with them en route back home.

Without a doubt,repparttar 110607 most dangerous of all… ...you might not even know if your child is being stalked by a person like this.

Here are some tips to safeguard your child against these types of individuals:

1. Just like TV, video games, or watching movies, you shouldn't let your child have free reign ofrepparttar 110608 computer any time they like.

Have a central family computer space (keep it out of their rooms if there is an internet hook-up) By making use ofrepparttar 110609 computer as a family affair, parents can keep a close eye on who they are interacting with.

The History Of Valentine's Day

Written by Katy Luck


Why We Celebrate Valentine's Day.. The oldest Valentine card still in existence was sent in 1415 by Charles Duke of Orleans, atrepparttar time a prisoner inrepparttar 110596 Tower of London, to his wife. The Valentine’s card is now preserved and displayed inrepparttar 110597 British Museum. However,repparttar 110598 origins of Valentine’s Day lie in ancient Rome. Overrepparttar 110599 yearsrepparttar 110600 ever expanding Roman empire became more difficult to police and there was an increasing shortage of soldiers. Believing that married men were too attached to their families and unlikely to sign up, Emperor Claudius II banned marriage, thinking this would increaserepparttar 110601 number of quality recruits. The story goes that a Christian priest byrepparttar 110602 name of Valentine, seeingrepparttar 110603 unhappiness and trauma that resulted, secretly married couples in defiance ofrepparttar 110604 new law.

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