Direct your child's attention to pages with favorite book or TV characters, and educational themes like special pets or hobbies. In other words, teach them fun ways to use the Web. Praise your child's curiosity. The Web offers them the ability to make decisions about what they want to know, seek all sorts of new information, weigh what they find, and look again for more. Praise your child's desire to learn.
Children enjoy going to chat rooms and talking with other children.
Parents sometimes worry that their children will fail to develop social skills. This is unlikely, since talking on-line is much like talking on the phone, but with a new possibility added. On-line your child can be something new and different, and try on a new identity. They can be smart, pretty, older, younger, or anything else they want. If they offend someone in a chat room, they can leave, reenter with a new identity, and try the same social interaction again.