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What can parents do to help safeguard their children while online?

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Nancy McBride
National Safety Director, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
www.missingkids.com  
1-800-THE-LOST

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) mission is to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation; help find missing children; and assist victims of child abduction and sexual exploitation, their families, and the professionals who serve them.

NCMEC was established in 1984 as a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization to provide services nationwide for families and professionals in the prevention of abducted, endangered, and sexually exploited children. Pursuant to its mission and its congressional mandates (see 42 U.S.C. §§ 5771 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. § 11606; 22 C.F.R. § 94.6),

The NCMEC serves as a clearinghouse of information about missing and exploited children, operates a CyberTipline that the public may use to report Internet-related child sexual exploitation, provides technical assistance to individuals and law-enforcement agencies in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of cases involving missing and exploited children, assists the U.S. Department of State in certain cases of international child abduction in accordance with the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, offers training programs to law-enforcement and social-service professionals, distributes photographs and descriptions of missing children worldwide, coordinates child-protection efforts with the private sector, networks with nonprofit service providers and state clearinghouses about missing-persons cases and provides information about effective state legislation to help ensure the protection of children.

What can parents do to help safeguard their children while online?

In this video series, Nancy McBride, the National Safety Director for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children answers questions regarding personal child safety on topics ranging from the Internet, School safety, Holiday safety, and information about child identification. The Q&A provides helpful tips and tools for parents and guardians to help keep their children safer.

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Host: What can parents do to help safeguard their children while online? Nancy McBride: There are number of things parents and guardians could do to help safe their kids while they are online; setting some very practical rules and guidelines and making sure kids understand them, monitoring what their kids are doing online, supervising their activity, using softwares, if they are able to purchase that or download that, these are all good tools for parents or guardians to have at their disposal, but nothing beats that parental supervision or guidance to really know and be aware of who your kids are communicating with online? What they are doing online? What other access they may have to computers, whether it's a library or a school or a friend s house or their cell phone.

There are so many ways for kids to get online now that parents or guardian have to make sure that the rules and guidelines are clear, no matter how a child is using a computer or wireless device .

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