Family Resources
Sometimes it’s easy to come across stumbling blocks when talking to your kids. “Mom and Dad” just don’t seem cool or hip enough. How can you broach the topic in a way that they’ll listen and feel like they can relate?
Here’s a robust menu of helpful hints, articles, and even guidelines for “the Talk,” so when you talk to your kids, you can spark a conversation in a way that they relate to, so you’re not only creating a connection, but having fun, too!
Need Help With "the Talk"?
Try our conversation starters, tips, and helpful questions for your kids!
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Want some articles on communicating with kids? Check these out:
Expert Advice on Keeping Kids Safe Online
Advice for Online safety and real-life situations.
Internet Safety and Your Teen
Teens are tech savvy and emotionally vulnerable. Here’s some important information about teens and how they use the web.
Teen Community Safety Tips
How teens use social networks, the potential dangers, and how to stay safe.
The Net Generation: First Generation Internet Citizens
Keeping kids safe and connected.
The Online Family: Your Essential Guide to Home Computing
Articles, resources, and information for tech savvy families.
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Connecting with Connected Kids
How to engage your kids about their Online activities.
3 Basic Tools to Monitor Your Children Online and Keep Their Trust
To make sure that our kids’ Internet activities are safe, healthy, and enriching, we have three basic tools at our disposal that can help control and reveal what our kids are doing online.
Internet Safety and Your Tween
What to know when it comes to tweens on the Net.
Kids Are Online and Loving It!
Some basic rules for fun Online.
The Make Believe Internet: A Virtual Balancing Act for Your Children
Welcome to the virtual world for little ones.
Screening Websites For Your Kids
How can you ensure that the sites your kids visit are safe?
All Kids Lie, Including Yours
Why kids lie, and what that could mean about their security Online.
Teens Write the Web
Kids are putting down books and “picking up the Web”.
Online Family Safety: A Marian Presentation to Parents
Join Marian and moms as they discuss kids Online.
School’s Out and Your Kids Are Online
Kids’ Top 100 Search Terms
The Changing Face of Cybercrime
Your family isn’t fully protected from Internet threats unless your computer is too. Read on to learn how the “changing face of cybercrime” can impact your online safety and gain insight on how to protect your computer and your family.
Getting Back to School Tips for Online Kids
These days getting prepared for going back to school involves more than just new clothes and school supplies. Is your child’s computer set up for a successful school year?
Have Questions? Feel free to ask Marian Merritt, our Internet Safety Advocate and mother of three: marian@norton.com
What are they doing, anyway?
Most kids use the Internet as a social means to connect with their friends. They explore social sites, read and write blogs, put up pictures, and leave each other messages. But where? Here are some of the most popular social networking sites, so you can see what kids really like, and what social networks are all about.
Gaming? Where?
Where are kids going to play games online? Here are some of the most popular online games and gaming web sites:
