I wrote this back in October. I think their advertising campaign is being directed at the correct target market.
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By: from02infinity
13 Oct 2003, 06:12 PM EDT
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My wife showed me this article from the October 2003 Parenting magazine and I felt compelled to share it with all longs. If ZKID advertises in magazines like this they will garner an unbelievable following. Lets hope this stock and this technology comes to fruition sooner than later.
Safety on the Internet
Kids love the Internet. Pedophiles and pornographers love it too. A search on farm animals, for example, will pull up beastiality sites as well as educational ones. It's also common for porn sites to take advantage of common mis-spellings and expired web addresses, including those associated with popular children sites. Unmonitored chat rooms pose the greatest danger. A recent study by the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center (CACRC) found that 19 percent of regular Internet users between the ages of 10 and 17 received online requests to engage in sex or provide sexual information about themselves. In 15 percent of the incidents, the solicitor attempted to contact the child offline. Janis Wolak, a lawyer who works with the CACRC, recommends that parents do the following:
SUPERVISE. There is no substitute for vigilance while your child's online. Keep computers in common areas, such as the family room or kitchen.
DESIGNATE SAFE SITES. Ask other parents and your local librarian for the names of safe websites for kids, and check them out yourself before your child logs on. Then use the favorites setting on your browser to set up a folder of websites that your child knows he/she has permission to visit.
MONITOR POSTINGS. Even on child-friendly websites, kids should never reveal personal information about themselves or their family, and they should never fill out forms (name, address, ect.)without a parent's permission. Before giving your go-ahead, be sure the form is on a "secure" site- that is, one that encrypts information so that it can't be viewed by others.
SCREEN e-MAIL. If your child has her own account, preview what lands in the in-box. At the least, establish rules about not opening anything from anyone he/she doesn't know.
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