McGruff Is Back to Teach Kids About Cybercrime and Internet Predators
Many of us remember McGruff the Crime Dog in his brown overcoat, urging kids to take a "bite out of crime." Now he's back, working to teach kids about cybercrime and Internet predators and hopefully to show parents a thing or two about keeping their kids safe.
At ny1.com, the new and more modern version of McGruff is described as a tool to hopefully make kids aware of the dangers of the Internet. According to Ann Harkins of the National Crime Prevention Council, 77% of kids "are contacted in some manner" by an Internet predator by the age of 14. This means that if you have a teenager, and that teenager uses the Internet, they've already met at least one pedophile.
Hopefully the crime dog will teach kids about cybercrime, but what about parents? There are too many parents out there who either don't understand the danger posed to their kids, or don't know how to do anything about it.
One option that has proven very effective is WebWatcher. Awareness Tech's WebWatcher is a parental control software system, allowing parents to know who their child is talking to and what they are seeing or hearing from their "Internet friends."
Webwatcher includes options for website blocking, email recording, chat recording, and more. And, unlike other parental control software systems, WebWatcher can be checked from a remote computer, giving working moms and dads the ability to protect their kids too.
As one father put it, when he found out his daughter had lied about her age and was accessing chat rooms, "there are a lot of perverts out there." With WebWatcher parents can keep those Internet predators "out there," and away from their homes and children.
At ny1.com, the new and more modern version of McGruff is described as a tool to hopefully make kids aware of the dangers of the Internet. According to Ann Harkins of the National Crime Prevention Council, 77% of kids "are contacted in some manner" by an Internet predator by the age of 14. This means that if you have a teenager, and that teenager uses the Internet, they've already met at least one pedophile.
Hopefully the crime dog will teach kids about cybercrime, but what about parents? There are too many parents out there who either don't understand the danger posed to their kids, or don't know how to do anything about it.
One option that has proven very effective is WebWatcher. Awareness Tech's WebWatcher is a parental control software system, allowing parents to know who their child is talking to and what they are seeing or hearing from their "Internet friends."
Webwatcher includes options for website blocking, email recording, chat recording, and more. And, unlike other parental control software systems, WebWatcher can be checked from a remote computer, giving working moms and dads the ability to protect their kids too.
As one father put it, when he found out his daughter had lied about her age and was accessing chat rooms, "there are a lot of perverts out there." With WebWatcher parents can keep those Internet predators "out there," and away from their homes and children.
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