Parent Survival Guide
To The Internet

Keeping Your Kids Smart and Safe in Cyberspace

by Richard Escobedo

If your parental instincts warn you to restrict or even shut off your child’s access to the Internet, you are not alone. Thousands of parents across the nation worry about what their children are seeing and hearing on the Internet, and about how to keep kids safe. And yet, they often have little say in the matter. High schools, middle schools and now even elementary schools require children to access the Internet to research reports, check schedules and turn in homework. So what is a mom or dad to do?

Teenager Richard Escobedo, author of 'Parent Survival Guide to The Internet', shows you the way. Knowing that well-informed is well-armed, he helps you make sense of the Internet, including social networking, the hottest item on most young people’s Internet agenda. Richard reveals to you the value of sites like YouTube, MySpace and Facebook so you can understand their lure, from your child’s perspective. In addition to social networking, he covers Internet communication including blogging, online gaming, chatrooms and instant messaging.

The book’s aim is to help you make sure your child gets value from the Internet while at the same time keeping him or her away from the things that are really dangerous –- like cyberbullying, pornography, internet predators and piracy. In easy language, the author discusses solutions that are available to you, as a parent -– spam filters, filtering software, online profile guidelines and parental control.

'Parent Survival Guide to The Internet' helps you bridge the gap that may exist between your child’s perception and perspective and your own, with respect to the Internet. It teaches you how to make sure children benefit fully from the Internet, yet stay safe and secure from its ills. So you can breathe more easy when your child calls out from upstairs to hold off on dinner a little because he, or she, is online.