Keeping Kids Safe Online: Links

Organizations with Internet-Safety Sites Aimed Specifically at Parents

Common Sense Media, a national parent’s group founded by a former media executive that advocates for parent filtering technology and rates the appropriateness of websites, movies, music, television shows, video games, and books for specific ages.
www.commonsensemedia.org

Federal Bureau of Investigation, a U.S. Justice Department agency, offers a parent’s guide to Internet safety.
www.fbi.gov/publications/pguide/pguide.htm

NetSmartz Workshop, an Internet safety site created by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
www.netsmartz.org

WiredSafety, a cyber-neighborhood watch offering tips on Internet safety staffed by volunteers and founded in 1995 by Internet privacy lawyer Parry Aftab.
www.wiredsafety.com