The best way to learn about the Internet is to use it. There are many activities your family can enjoy. Depending on their age, maturity and the responsibility you believe they can handle, your children will...
MEET PEOPLE.
Did you ever have a pen pal? You may have waited weeks to get an answer to a letter. With e-mail and "kids-only" chat rooms, your children can contact other children around the world — or right next door — in an instant! If you want to meet your children's new friends at school or in the neighborhood, you will want to meet their online friends, too.
ENTERTAIN THEMSELVES.
Cyberspace is full of fun and games, cartoons, artwork and coloring pages, magazines, and newspapers from other countries. Supervise your children's play online, just as you would at your local playground.
LEARN.
Imagine a chance to visit every museum in the world, do science projects with prize-winning researchers, solve educational puzzles and get homework help from real teachers who volunteer as online tutors. It's as important to meet the educators who enrich your children's cyberspace as it is to attend parent-teacher meetings at your local school.
GET INFORMATION.
With the Internet, your children can visit libraries, read encyclopedias and gather the facts for first-rate projects in history, math, science and language arts. If you usually keep an eye on your children's reading choices, you will want to do the same online.
SHOP.
The Internet is a worldwide mall with thousands of stores. You and your children can use the Internet to learn what's new, compare product features and prices, and make online purchases. It's no-hassle shopping at its best, ideal for locating hard-to-find sizes and styles as well as great bargains. Use the same rules for helping children shop online as you use in the local mall.
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