Instant Messenger

Monitor the messaging programs a child is using. This is how children communicate with one another on the Internet, and you need to keep on eye on this. This is how a lot of inappropriate language and images are exchanged. You don’t want to think your child is doing their homework only to see they’re exchanging pornographic images. Many children use the Internet as a means of bullying other children, and you do not want to find out that your child has been bullied or is bullying other kids via the Internet. Additionally, you want to monitor if your child is exchanging files via this messaging system, as this is a major way for viruses to make their way onto your computer.
Also, you want to make sure you monitor the websites a child looks at while on the Internet. One of the biggest online dangers for children is that they will see things that they should not be seeing yet.  If you do not know the information your child is taking in while on the Internet, then you are not there to explain it or to put it into context. Thus, information children see while surfing the web could lead to some terrible thoughts or behaviours or could encourage the ones a child already has.