Too Much Information

When using the Internet, it is amazingly easy to give out too much information very very quickly.

Create Your Very Own Fairy at Pixie Hollow!

Ever since Peter Pan hit the theaters, children everywhere have loved Tinkerbell. As the years have gone by, Tink's world has been expanded to included many other magical fairies and a whole forest. They even have an online version of this forest that anyone can play in. It's free to join and create a character.

Disney has done the best job they possibly can in keeping this community-driven site safe for visitors.

There's also a special place on PixieHollow.com just for parents! Visit the Parents' Center to read more about our magical online world and Fairy safety. You can also download an Arrival Day Kit to make your child's arrival into Pixie Hollow extra special.

As part of our commitment to creating a safe online environment, Pixie Hollow is free from third-party advertising and offers parental controls, which allow you to monitor your child's chat permissions and account history. To manage your child's account, please visit our Account Manager.

So fly on over and visit the Disney Fairies @ Pixie Hollow!

AOL Helps Keep The Whole Family Safer Online

I got an AOL tip in my email recently. It regards the kind of initiatives that their company is doing and has always done to try and help keep kids safe online.

Do you know what is considered "Cyberbullying"? Do you know how to deal with a Cyberbully? Our new online safety Web site, SafetyClicks, can help. Featuring articles, videos and an interactive quiz, the site is designed to keep parents "plugged in" about how to best protect kids and teens in a Web 2.0 world. And don't forget to download our free parental controls software -- it's new and improved, making it the most comprehensive free parental controls available. Plus, it no longer requires an AOL screen name for use.

Learn more at AOL.

Wired Article

Here is a Wired article for parents.

Odds are you're worried about the public implications of your kid's behavior online – such as whether your tween is passing herself off as a sultry 19-year-old on MySpace, or he’s nursing an outta-control Internet poker and porn habit. Or maybe you're concerned that Google's cache will cough up their explicit blog to a prospective employer in 2016. In a teenage brain, impulse control is still under construction, psychologist David Walsh says. The job of the parent is to act as the surrogate prefrontal cortex.

For more information, visit Wired 14.07: START.