Monday night a panel of experts met with concerned parents at Charlotte Country Day Middle School to give tips on how to keep cyber-creeps away from kids, and how to keep your kids from getting into computer trouble on their own. At the meeting parents shared their stories of chat room come-ons. Parents watched computer images of easy to find graphic porn sites and found out what they could do to keep their children from going to those sites. One suggestion from the panel of experts is learning more about the parental controls that many home computers already have available. Parents learned how to block adult content in newsgroups and how to get e-mail and chat control.
Internet providers can also help parents monitor their children.
The problem with buying software to screen adult material out of the home is that the software must be frequently updated.