sandrewmama

Hi all,

My name is Chris. Dd (6-3/4 ya know how important that 3/4 is to someone her
age) and ds (13) and I have been homeschooling from the beginning, relaxed
homeschooling for about 12 of those years and really unschooling for the
past 6 months or so. Dd is an artist, loves pokemon, yu-gi-oh, yoga,
soccer, polly pockets, barbies, Harry Potter and most of all medieval
imaginary play. Ds is a musician, loves fantasy role-playing video games,
DDR, a voracious reader and has a tender, gentle heart.

Here is my question: I would very much like to turn ds loose researching his
interests on the internet but I don't know how to protect him from the
images and ideas that would scar his tender heart and brain should he
stumble across them. Is there any safe way for him to surf to his heart's
content without fear of coming across explicit material? If it matters, we
are all Apple computers in this house. What do you do?

Thanks in advance!

dana tierney

I do nothing at all and my 14yo does not appear to suffer for it. If
this does not appeal to you there are any number of products on the
market, but I can tell you from my work experience that your son may
well be blocked from searches such as

breast cancer
Salem witches
"the great Satan" (Khomeini's opinion of the US, remember?)
terrorism

You may not think that this is such a bad thing, and that is the
beauty of homeschooling, you do yours and I do mine. But I just
thought I would point out the downside.

Dana




On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:57:32 -0500, sandrewmama <sandrewmama@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> My name is Chris. Dd (6-3/4 ya know how important that 3/4 is to someone her
> age) and ds (13) and I have been homeschooling from the beginning, relaxed
> homeschooling for about 12 of those years and really unschooling for the
> past 6 months or so. Dd is an artist, loves pokemon, yu-gi-oh, yoga,
> soccer, polly pockets, barbies, Harry Potter and most of all medieval
> imaginary play. Ds is a musician, loves fantasy role-playing video games,
> DDR, a voracious reader and has a tender, gentle heart.
>
> Here is my question: I would very much like to turn ds loose researching his
> interests on the internet but I don't know how to protect him from the
> images and ideas that would scar his tender heart and brain should he
> stumble across them. Is there any safe way for him to surf to his heart's
> content without fear of coming across explicit material? If it matters, we
> are all Apple computers in this house. What do you do?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>

sandy lubert

Hi Chris-
Welcome! Your username caught my attention because I am Sandra and
dh is Andrew and family calls us "Sandrew"!
Anyway, I understand your concerns re: pop-ups etc on Internet. My
dh installed "parental controls" through Yahoo - I think it asks you
to specify the types of things you would like to have screened, etc?
I can get more info if you like.
Cheers,
Sandy

Fetteroll

on 9/21/04 5:57 PM, sandrewmama at sandrewmama@... wrote:

> Here is my question: I would very much like to turn ds loose researching his
> interests on the internet but I don't know how to protect him from the
> images and ideas that would scar his tender heart and brain should he
> stumble across them.

If he uses Google to search, they have something they call "Safe Search".

Go to Google. Click on Preferences on the right. Scroll down a bit and you
get 3 choices:

* Use strict filtering (Filter both explicit text and explicit images)
* Use moderate filtering (Filter explicit images only - default behavior)
* Do not filter my search results.

Which ever you choose will be the default each time you use Google.

Joyce

Angela

If he uses Google to search, they have something they call "Safe Search".





Thanks Joyce, for the info on google's safe search.



I have a question I hope someone can help with. I was playing with those
features. I selected safe search and then I proceeded to type in some racy
words into google. Now, whenever I start to type something in google it
comes up with my memorized searches(if they start with the same letter) and
those words pop up. LOL! I can't seem to figure out how to delete them.
This isn't just the history, I already deleted that. Can anyone help me?
Thanks.

Angela




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Daniel MacIntyre

go to tools/internet options/content

In the personal information section you will find a button labeled
"Autocomplete..." click it and it will let you clear it out as well
as set a few preferences to keep that from happening in the future.

Daniel


On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:05:59 -0400, Angela <game-enthusiast@...> wrote:
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> If he uses Google to search, they have something they call "Safe Search".
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>
> Thanks Joyce, for the info on google's safe search.
>
> I have a question I hope someone can help with. I was playing with those
> features. I selected safe search and then I proceeded to type in some racy
> words into google. Now, whenever I start to type something in google it
> comes up with my memorized searches(if they start with the same letter) and
> those words pop up. LOL! I can't seem to figure out how to delete them.
> This isn't just the history, I already deleted that. Can anyone help me?
> Thanks.
>
> Angela
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Angela

Thank you Daniel



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sandrewmama

Dana wrote:

>I do nothing at all and my 14yo does not appear to suffer for it. If
>this does not appeal to you there are any number of products on the
>market, but I can tell you from my work experience that your son may
>well be blocked from searches such as
>
>breast cancer
>Salem witches
>"the great Satan" (Khomeini's opinion of the US, remember?)
>terrorism
>
>You may not think that this is such a bad thing, and that is the
>beauty of homeschooling, you do yours and I do mine. But I just
>thought I would point out the downside.
>
>Dana

-=- Dana, I agree with you. When I've tried out internet security parental
controls before they were way too restrictive. I think that they were only
allowing access to previewed and approved websites and we were rarely able
to access anything of interest to us -=-

Sandy wrote:

>Hi Chris-
>Welcome! Your username caught my attention because I am Sandra and
>dh is Andrew and family calls us "Sandrew"!
>Anyway, I understand your concerns re: pop-ups etc on Internet. My
>dh installed "parental controls" through Yahoo - I think it asks you
>to specify the types of things you would like to have screened, etc?
>I can get more info if you like.
>Cheers,
>Sandy

-=- Hi Sandy,
My married name is Sanders; maiden name is Andrews so Sandrew is a
combination of the two. Dh and I dated in high school and I used to play
name games -- Put an "S" in front of the "A", transpose the "r" and "e" and
drop the "w" turns Andrews into Sanders -- silly teen stuff.

Thanks for the Yahoo parental control info. I had no idea. I'll look into
it. -=-

Joyce wrote:

> If he uses Google to search, they have something they call "Safe Search".
>
> Go to Google. Click on Preferences on the right. Scroll down a bit and you
> get 3 choices:
>
> * Use strict filtering (Filter both explicit text and explicit images)
> * Use moderate filtering (Filter explicit images only - default behavior)
> * Do not filter my search results.
>
> Which ever you choose will be the default each time you use Google.
>
> Joyce

-=- Awesome, Google as well as Yahoo! Thanks Joyce!

Chris-=-

Daniel MacIntyre

you didn't do anything wrong. A cookie is a little piece of code that
keeps track of stuff relating to websites you visit. Google uses a
cookie to remember that you prefer safe searches. the problem with
cookies is that they can be used to track all sorts of things you do
in websites. They can also tell the website owner what you have been
doing (visited websites, etc...). You can change your cookie settings
in Internet explorer by clicking on tools, choosing options and then
going to the Privacy option. This lets you set all sorts of options
for how your computer handles cookies. First, there should be a bar
on the screen that lets you set your privacy levels - block all
cookies is the highest, allow all cookies is the lowest.

You also have an import button, an advanced button (I wouldn't use it,
but that's just me), a default button and an edit button.

I can't tell you what you want to set your cookies at, but that is
where you would set them.

Daniel


On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:19:37 -0700, Tara Marie Colbert
<taramarie2@...> wrote:
> I tried this suggestion and I got a message about cookies needing to be installed...Did I do something wrong ?
>
> Tara
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Fetteroll
> Go to Google. Click on Preferences on the right. Scroll down a bit and you
> get 3 choices:
>
> * Use strict filtering (Filter both explicit text and explicit images)
> * Use moderate filtering (Filter explicit images only - default behavior)
> * Do not filter my search results.
>
> Joyce
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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>

Tara Marie Colbert

I tried this suggestion and I got a message about cookies needing to be installed...Did I do something wrong ?

Tara
----- Original Message -----
From: Fetteroll
Go to Google. Click on Preferences on the right. Scroll down a bit and you
get 3 choices:

* Use strict filtering (Filter both explicit text and explicit images)
* Use moderate filtering (Filter explicit images only - default behavior)
* Do not filter my search results.

Joyce



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