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Protecting children from cyber predators

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Kids learning computer operations. Photo: tech-kidz.com Just how vulnerable innocent children are in cyber age has made it mandatory for concerned parents to take extra-precautions in allowing them to have access to the internet. Reason? Parents, especially those who are always busy at work, may not have the time to be always on guard when their minor children are given access to the internet at home. But is this possible? It depends. One thing any concerned parent must do is to regulate or impose discipline among their children in the use of the internet at home is to introduce a password that only one of the parents should have access to. In this way, children who are doing their research assignments in the internet should have the leeway to veer away from what they're researching about by stumbling on a pornographic materials that will accidentally pop out in the computer screen. Any computer for that matter is installed with a pop-out blocker which can be turn OFF and O