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Internet Safety
Keeping your child safe online
The Internet is a wonderful research, homework and communication tool for students. It also presents a host of risks for our youth including online predators and bullies.
You can help protect your child by keeping the lines of communication open and creating a set of Internet house rules.
Did you know that:
• 1 out of every 5 cases of cyber stalking becomes an off-line real-world stalking
case.
• 50% of Canada’s young people use the Internet for instant messaging and 27% of
this group use the Internet for instant messaging every day or almost every day.
• Only 28% of parents are aware that their children use instant messaging.
• More than 50% of youth using instant messaging chat with people they’ve only met
online.
• 2/3 of Canadian youth say their parents never sit with them, never use blocking, and
never check the history of sites visited.
(Source: www.media-awareness.ca and www.safety-council.org)
Related Web Sites
• www.reallifeonline.ca
• http://www.BeWebAware.ca
• www.media-awareness.ca (Click on English then Special Initiatives)
• http://www.netsmartz.org/