Comments on: Cool Sites for Kids Leads to Problems http://www.meryl.net/2006/02/cool-sites-for-kids-leads-to-problems/ Content on writing, tech, business, marketing, web design. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:22:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Charlie on the PA Tpk http://www.meryl.net/2006/02/cool-sites-for-kids-leads-to-problems/#comment-906 Charlie on the PA Tpk Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:16:09 +0000 http://meryl.net/new/2006/02/15/cool-sites-for-kids-leads-to-problems/#comment-906 <p>My 2 sons are 10 and 3, so this nasty bit of the Internet is still a few years away. However, despite all of the contempt I receive from others, my oldest boy accesses the web only through AOL.</p> <p>No one has shown me any kid-filtering software that comes even close to AOL's KOL. Each day I get a report on where he's surfed, who he has IMd and e-mailed. If he wants to visit a site that's not already on his whitelist, he can either e-mail or IM me (or my much better half) and we can approve the site (or not). And the daily report lists any site he's been denied from visiting; good to know should he ever start exploring.</p> <p>Worth the extra bucks, no doubt about it.</p> My 2 sons are 10 and 3, so this nasty bit of the Internet is still a few years away. However, despite all of the contempt I receive from others, my oldest boy accesses the web only through AOL.

No one has shown me any kid-filtering software that comes even close to AOL’s KOL. Each day I get a report on where he’s surfed, who he has IMd and e-mailed. If he wants to visit a site that’s not already on his whitelist, he can either e-mail or IM me (or my much better half) and we can approve the site (or not). And the daily report lists any site he’s been denied from visiting; good to know should he ever start exploring.

Worth the extra bucks, no doubt about it.

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