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	Erika Lyn Smith BellaOnline's Missing and Exploited Children Editor

Online Chat Lingo
When your child is talking online do you understand what you see on the screen? Learn the chat lingo kids are using to communicate online.

Charges Filed in MySpace Cyber-bullying
Megan Taylor Meier was thirteen years old when she hung herself in her bedroom closet on October 16, 2008. What happened in the minutes, days, and weeks before Megan killed herself has become a heated controversy across the entire nation.

Child Predators in Cyberspace
Who do you let into your home via the internet? Sexual predators are lurking in cyberspace waiting for an innocent child to log onto the home computer. Learn how to keep your children safe while surfing the internet.

Cyber-harassment, Cyber-bullies, and Cyber-suicide
In the end, an adult led each girl to believe she was talking to a boy her own age. In the end, both girls were deceived by adults who knew what they were doing, harassing a minor over the internet, pretending to be someone they were not, and in the end two beautiful young girls were dead.

Dangers of GPS Systems
GPS systems almost all have a home button, which gives step-by-step directions to home. Now imagine your GPS in the hands of thieves who hit the home button, only this time thieves got step-to-step directions to your unattended home. Have you considered how this feature can endanger your family?

Digital Exploitation of Teens
In our digital age cameras are everywhere, on cell phones, computers, and in most homes. Digital cameras and cell phone cameras may feel safe to use to take indecent pictures of one’s body or self in a sexy way. Teach teens about respect and privacy of themselves.

eBlaster Computer Monitoring Software
If a child is allowed unlimited access to the internet and the parent does not teach him or her what is out there he or she will find the dark side without your help. Learn about the eBlaster monitoring software to protect your children

Online Safety
Talk to your children about safety while online. Set limits for regarding suitable sites and make clear what personal information is appropriate to share and what is not.

Online Safety for Children
Parents need to talk to children about safety while online. Set limits for where children can surf and what information he or she may release. Internet safety guidelines are important for children allowed to use the internet. What are your personal guidelines?

Predators Access Children Electronically
How can we as parents monitor our childrens safety when he or she can text, instant message, surf, and call anyone in the world from their own bedroom behind closed doors without a parent ever knowing with whom their child is interacting. Monitoring children is part of being a parent.

Predators Soliciting Teens by Texting
The stories never stop coming from the news media involving sick pedophiles and innocent children. This week in Broward County Florida a 21-year-old male working as a childcare monitor at the Pine Lakes Elementary School is in jail because he has been sexually texting three male students.

Protecting Personal Information
Is your garage door opener clipped to the sun visor? If you park in your driveway and not your garage, you may be providing a direct entry for someone who does not belong inside your home. Read the article to find out how to stay safe.

Social Networking Guidelines
How safe are you online? Even if you do not provide personal information on your profile your best friend may be giving away your safety by attaching to your social networking page. Find out how to keep yourself and your friends safe in cyberspace.

Teens and Electronic Ettiquette
Teenagers hang out at malls, chat on the phone, text their friends the latest news on their cell phone, and surf the web. Some teens create a MySpace or Face Book page, which allows them yet another way to socialize with peers. So how do we teach them proper electronic ettiquette?

Teens and Internet Laws
She is just 14, living in the north east, a typical teenager by many standards, yet soon the law may required her to register as a sex offender. At fourteen, you may wonder what she could have done to do face a lifetime as a registered sex offender. Many teens are doing the same thing, is your teen?

Teens Using Web Cams
Web cam teens are teenagers who undress or perform solo sex acts in front of their web cam. They perform for countless people in chat rooms and even around the world, for a price.