Blocking Immoral Websites would Fail to Protect Children and only give Parents False Sense of Security

What we disagree with is the mechanisms by which we protect our children. It's not that easy and the solutions that are being discussed are not perfect. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) blocked thousand of Adult contents earlier, but in spite of blockage children are not safe. Because there are other things and contents circumnavigating round the Internet that hurts Children. Regulation of content on mobile phones and video iPods is largely absent.
Texting, tweeting, facebooking, web-surfing, emailing and social networking are the toys of the so-called ING (Internet Next Generation). Like their parents, this generation must contend with playground bullies. Often, a child will not even know the name of their tormentor. The victim's parents may feel helpless because they have no recourse or tools to protect their child online. The problem is the most frequent threat a child faces online. All episodes of bullying are serious. Dismissing them as inconsequential could have grim consequences that include depression, dropping grades, school truancy and health problems.
Parents themselves ultimately must take up the responsibility of instilling the right framework in their child and they have the power and right to ban and control their children from accessing adult content. I think the government haven’t an appropriate system to filter the adult content on Internet and cannot develop the right mindset in one child's mind. It is parents themselves who wield the ultimate control and power over their child. Thus, the responsibility also lies on parents to control and monitor their children.
Educating your kids
But, as always, common sense prevails: Tell your kids that the same rules they use when walking down a street apply when they surf the Net. Some good guidelines are following below:
· Set guidelines for how your child uses the computer and discuss those guidelines with your child.
· Don’t let your child give out personal information, such as address, phone number, or school name, online.
· Don’t let your child arrange for online meetings with a stranger or send his or her photograph.
· Tell your children to come to you immediately if someone sends them messages that they don’t like.
Controlling kids’ access
No matter how safe you make your home computer, your child may have access to other computers that don’t have such filters. While elementary schools may install these features, public libraries usually don’t because the filters would block adults from accessing legitimate information. And, of course, your child’s friends’ computers may not have the same safeguards as the one in your home does. So be sure to include other computers your children may use when setting the rules for them. And it would be a good idea to talk to the parents of the children your child visits often and ask if they use filters on their computer. These parents may not use any filters just because they don’t know they exist.
Porn sites are all over the Internet and, unfortunately, kids are certainly smarter than adults are about computers. The good news is that online services provide tools for parental control that protects curious young minds from getting inappropriate materials. With varying degrees, they let you surf for what you want without worrying too much about whether your kids can also find the material. You can, in fact, allow your children to use the computer and still protect them from evil and other inappropriate online content. Dozens of software filters are now available, and http://www1.k9webprotection.com/ can lead you to the one that has the features you want. It’s totally free, safe and tested by me. (If you need any assistance regarding installation of “K9 Web Protection” then don’t hesitate to ask me)

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Do you want Government to Ban Night Calling & Internet Packages?

Mobile phones or Internet are very useful utilities which I am strongly favoring to be in the hands of every individual. It is the requirement of every body nowadays and every body should have it. But its misuse must be condemned and discouraged. This will reduce by Government, Cellular Companies, ISP’s, Parents, and Teachers etc.

The night is important part of the day, after working all time we should go sleep in night instead of spare and immoral conversation. A Survey prove that some 80 percent of the youth were utilizing this night-time free call service, and that they were therefore unable to attend to their academic responsibilities. The late night packages are totally targeting our young generation, like “Lambi Raat Lambi Baat” etc. This is all nothing but just a waste of time, money, energy and peak potential of our youngsters. It is the age to learn and to do something worthy in the practical life. By such packages, they become mentally loose, lazy and sluggish. Restless nights are naturally not healthy for human body and these kids end up with serious mental and physical disorder, if they keep making nigh calls for long time. They cannot exhibit mental toughness and show a solid character to meet the challenges and combat the hard situations in their practical lives. This strait does not leave them active for the rest of their lives. It is creating a general unrest and disharmony in the society; it is further scratching our already torn social fabric. The recent instance of 3 boys and 3 girls run away from their school (Rawalpindi) and went to Peshawar and then caught by Police is an instance of this ludicrous activity.

Even if we put aside the health reasons these night crawlers callers spend their time doing what?

Almost all of them are calling boy/girl friends. What good purpose does that serve? Also, it’s forbidden in Islam to do activities like that. If you are a Muslim (One who does Islam, which is submitting yourself, your will, your desires to the Creator), you are piling up huge amounts of sins doing just that. People who think they should be given freedom of choice, well humans are not so good in choosing what’s good for them. History proves that why there are laws. 

I think the Government should instruct to Companies which can work in favouring of youth. Any investor in Pakistan is do business only for profit not only for providing facility to the nation. They don’t take care about there high profits may harmful for the general public. These companies offered extremely low priced, on-net hourly calls, which ended up with sleepless nights of the (young) callers. But if you eye other regions, they offer such discounts on all type activities, be it an on-net, off-net, international or any other type of data or voice call.

However, Parents role are most important, they should keep an eye on their rooms especially in night and check their cell phones regularly. School Principals and Teachers are also taking care of their students while wasting time.They should visit hostels habitually and implement, “Say No To Long Night Calls” which leads to startling results in future.

By: Sultan Alam 

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THE HIDDEN DANGERS OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY: YOU & YOUR CHILD

While technology has forever changed the way we live our lives, it has also brought our children dangerously close to the monsters lurking within the TV and the internet, mobile communication and gaming. Children are vulnerable. It is up to parents to protect children and their innocence. So ask yourself: Am I, as a parent, prepared? Am I aware of the dangers my child is exposed to? Am I guiding my child properly?

It will no longer do to brush subjects like obscenity and indecency and pornography under the carpet. It will no longer do to shout, scold, hit or punish your child if you find them being curious about subjects considered taboo. It’s unreasonable to clamp out TV or Internet or society out of their lives. It’ll only fuel a child’s fascination and curiosity and worse, they will go ahead and experiment behind your back.

Currently, Pakistani children are victims of rigid social frameworks where definite do’s and don’ts are imposed without explanation and where every instinct is taboo on one hand, while unregulated commercialism shamelessly laughs in the face of social norms and traditions on the other.

We indulge children with access to unrestricted TV viewing, unmonitored internet surfing, access to personal mobile phones, web cameras and the like. Unabashed advertising and commercialism entice children into grounds that eventually lead to harm .Over the years, with the onslaught of cheaply available commercial services the potential for abuse has also grown, up to the point where it can now no longer be ignored. The truth is our traditions are becoming more and more fragile. It is time to act now, time to do our part.

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How to Keep Your Children Safe

If you are a parent, it is very important that you safeguard and watch over your children's internet activity or whenever they access the computer. The children surfs online on their own is very dangerous. Children are curious and love to explore new things. So, if you have children, think about online safety and learn how you can protect them from immoral websites, games and other rough things that will harm your children in the future


How To Protect Your Children Online

Getting more involved and paying more attention to your children and their daily routine is a good way to watch over your children's internet activity. Sit with your children and think of activities that you can both do online. It can be from researching an interesting or an educational topic to playing an online game. You can also gives some drawings to draw, some work to do and keep your children busy in good things instead of leave them freely while they surfing on the Internet.
   

Place your computer in an open area: 

It is always a good idea to keep your computer in an open area, that may be in sitting room and where there is a lot of traffic. This way, you can keep an eye on your children while they surf the net. If they access a site which they are not allowed to go to, it gives you a chance to intervene and teach them why it is important not to visit that specific site.



Make rules:

Making rules and setting boundaries about what sites to visit and what sites not to visit is also a good way to protect your children. Teach your children and talk to them about what he or she is allowed to do on the computer, how long they are allowed to be on the computer, what software programs they can use and what activities or tasks they are allowed to do. Also, talk to your children and make them aware about the dangers of the Internet and talking to strangers online.

Communicate with your children:

Communication is key if you want to protect your children and keep them safe from strangers on the internet. Talk to your children constantly about their Internet activities and get to know which sites they are visiting as well as who they talk to online if they use email and go to chat rooms.

Notice when they playing a Game:

As we inspired by physical existence of anything happened, Computer Games are also a tools of transform respected enjoyment in the player. But Games are distinct from work and sometimes used as an educational purpose. So, it's necessary to watch out your children when they playing games.

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