Family: Tools to Find Family-Friendly Content

Tools to Find Family-Friendly Content

Written by Andrew Malek

The Internet is magnificent in its resources for families. Educational resources abound. Kids can easily find help for their homework blues without venturing to repparttar

library. Kids can chat with friends from far away for free; friends who, probably just a few years ago, they would never hear from again. And, of course, there’s plenty of entertainment to satisfy repparttar 111606

whole family once repparttar 111607

chores and homework are complete.

However, repparttar 111608 Internet can often be an inappropriate place for kids to surf unsupervised. Plenty of content is only appropriate for mature audiences. And, sadly, there are ‘bad seeds’, those who repparttar 111609 children never should talk to.

Help keep your children away from these unsuitable materials. Many search engines and directories have filters and options that only return pages that have passed a particular profanity or “kid-safe” filter. These types of filters vary from web site to web site, but may do one of repparttar 111610 following:

* Only allow you to search a selection of links picked by repparttar 111611 site’s editors to be “kid-safe” or free of profanity.

* Not show links containing profane words, these being words designated by a site to be profane. This list may not contain all possible profane words or combinations.

* Show links containing profane words but block out repparttar 111612 profane words with asterisks, dollar signs, or other symbols. Again, repparttar 111613 blocked-out words are those repparttar 111614 site deems profane and might not include all such words.

Unfortunately, no filter can be 100% accurate.

Here are some search engines that have filters you can enable to try to weed out inappropriate content.

AltaVista http://www.altavista.com/

Above and to repparttar 111615 right of repparttar 111616 search query box you can find repparttar 111617 link labeled “Family Filter”. Turn on this filter to cause AltaVista to filter out inappropriate content. Be sure to read repparttar 111618 linked-to FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) before using this filter. Again, no family filter is 100% accurate, but it’s better than nothing.

Ask Jeeves For Kids http://www.ajkids.com/

You can provide kids with their very own search butler. Ask Jeeves for Kids is a special version of repparttar 111619 popular Ask Jeeves web site geared towards repparttar 111620 younger set. It is used repparttar 111621 same way as repparttar 111622 normal Ask Jeeves – just ask a question and click repparttar 111623 “Ask” button.

You will notice repparttar 111624 site design is quite different from repparttar 111625 main Ask Jeeves. The page is colorful and includes fonts more suited for kids. There are links to games, study tools, news resources, and message boards. Be sure to check out Jeeves’ hat as you move your mouse over each resource :)

WHERE'S THERE'S SMOKE

Written by Arleen M. Kaptur

As sure as May comes after April Showers, barbecue grills across repparttar

world are heating up and sending out their aromatic smoke signals. Grilling is a fun family activity except when something turns out to be a “burnt offering to repparttar 111605

gods” of ancient times.

There are flavored wood chips and bottled seasonings to take you to far-away places and exotic destinations right there in your own backyard.

You can start with simple ideas like hot dogs, and hamburgers, take repparttar 111606 next step to chicken, steaks and ribs. and when you get really good take on kabobs and a whole roasted pig.

Oh, repparttar 111607 heavenly aroma and repparttar 111608 endless possibilities. You can have your doggies plain, with cheese, wrapped, and even put on a raft and sent to sail onto your dinner table. Never heard of dogs on a raft, well now - Slit your favorite type of hot dog lengthwise, but not all repparttar 111609 way through. Grill over hot coals. Taking pieces of foil large enough to hold a sandwich, arrange two pieces of bacon on repparttar 111610 bottom of your foil. Turn repparttar 111611 edges up to catch any drippings so your messages to neighbors far and near wait a while. Cook repparttar 111612 bacon in repparttar 111613 foil on repparttar 111614 grill. In your slit hot dog place a strip of pickle (not round), and cheese strips. Place your hot dog on another sheet of foil and grill until cheese melts. Place these dogs on a toasted coney bun but crosswise, not lengthwise. Place repparttar 111615 two pieces of bacon across repparttar 111616 top of your hot dogs and viola! you have your dogs setting sail on a raft into gourmet heaven. Serve chilled cantaloupe wedges, fruit punch as a beverage, and your favorite brownies.

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