SurveilStar Inc. Launches Any Parental Control Software for Parents to Protect their Kids Online Safety

SurveilStar Inc., the worldwide leader in Internet monitoring and surveillance software, today released a new product for parents protecting their kids’ online safety: SurveilStar Any Parental Control. The first release of SurveilStar Any Parental Control, available for a free trial at http://www.any-parental-control.com, works with Windows XP, Vista and 7. It secretly takes screenshots, records email and instant message, monitors visited websites & more. The dominant use of the Internet varies with the age of the child. Younger children use online games in the main; whilst older children use the Internet for conducting web searches as well as for communicating – through email, chat and increasingly in social networking sites. An open Internet is unsafe for children and parenting in this digital age is difficult. So as a parent, what can you do for protecting your kids from online dangers? Here SurveilStar Any Parental Control can provide parents a reliable solution to make sure your kids online safety by monitoring their any online activities. SurveilStar Any Parental Control is designed for parents to monitor kids’ online activity. It features the following: • Take Screen Snapshots: With Any Parental Control, parents can capture screen snapshots of your kid’s computers. Parents can watch the video-like screen snapshots in real-time, see computer screen as the monitored user sees it. Without being monitored, it is often the case that kids get carried away with excessive video game, social net working sites, chatting rooms and adult oriented websites. With screenshot history, parents can easily know what their children are doing on Internet. So they can protect children from cyber dangers. With this Screen Snapshots feature, parents can preview the screenshot in full screen or save image in PDF format. • Monitor Web Surfing Activity: SurveilStar Any Parental Control is designed to be parent-centric. The Internet brims with ideas, people, and experiences. But do you know what sites your kids visit and how long that they spend online? Are you sure that an online surfing is safe for them? As we all know, the Internet is inundated with adult content. And now, even on sites that kids might like to visit, such as social networks or video download sites, adult content is lurking. With SurveilStar Any Parental Control, you can monitor your kids’ website surfing for protecting from adult oriented websites and any other harmful websites. It can record all the visited websites, URLs, captions, users, and computers to estimate users’ browsing activity. It also can provide easy-to-use web browsing log enquiry. • Email Recording: Monitoring you child’s emails can be an important part of protecting them from the dangers of the Internet. As a concerned parent, you’ll want to remain informed of what your child is doing online, and sometimes email can be the best way to find out what’s really going on. SurveilStar Any Parental Control records and stores all the information you’ll need – whether an email was sent or received, who sent it, who received it, the date and time an email was sent or received, the subject, the contents and any attachments. Thus, you can know exactly your kids online activity. With SurveilStar Any Parental Control, you can monitor the following email: Hotmail, Yahoo!, Webmail, MySpace, AOL Webmail, and even more! • Instant Message Monitoring: SurveilStar Any Parental Control is compatible with all major instant messaging software (e.g. AIM, Facebook, Yahoo! messenger, Skye, ICQ, Tencent QQ, Google Talk, and MSN). It is not only able to log outgoing messages by a local user, but also incoming messages too. SurveilStar Any Parental Control records both sides of a conversation allowing you to see what your kids are saying as well as how other chat participants respond. So as parents who concern kids, you can access and control the time spent on chatting by your kids. The recorded information can be automatically calculated and organized for easy analysis and reporting, with this parental control software, parents can know exactly what the kids are doing online and then can take measures to control kids web activities. In addition, SurveilStar Any Parental Control provides you the ability to password protect your web traffic statistics to ensure that only authorized people have access to SurveilStar Control Center. In this case, just parents can learn and control what their kids are doing online. Further, with SurveilStar Any Parental Control, you can conveniently back up and review the recorded data. In Tool, parents can choose Statistic Chart to learn more information about their kids’ online activity and time-spending. There are also some more convenient data for parents to explore. From the pie chart, parents know where your kids go online. Get detailed reports on web pages visited, time and length of visit. So with this feature, you can set rules for your child what they can do and how much time they can spend online according to statistic chart in tool. If you want to learn more cool features about this SurveilStar Any Parental Control software, please click the following download button to have a free trail!
http://www.any-parental-control.com/ any-parental-control.zip

Top Five Gifts Moms Would Love Their Baby Boys To Receive

Baby boys, even as young as five to six months old can already appreciate gifts (though some of them have no idea that what they have in front of them are called gifts). They put on their best smiles whenever people hand them toys or other things. For them, toys or gifts are their prized possessions. Some of them even sleep with these things on their bed side. Really, most of them have no preference when it comes to gifts—but not their moms. As responsible mothers, they have specific requirements. Yes, they never tell givers because it is outrageous. But moms definitely have choices for a gift. Now, what are the gifts moms would love their baby boys to receive? Here are the top five in the list:

1. Educational Toys. At an early age, mommies want to develop the mental abilities, as well as the motor skills, of their baby boys. To do so, they require the assistance of their families and they also appreciate the help that educational toys offer. Therefore, when thinking of gifts to buy for baby boys, never have any second thought about buying educational toys.

2. Children’s Books. Baby boys, like any other babies, experiences difficulties in sleeping from time to time. Mothers, of course, need to do something to put them to sleep. They do sing lullabies; but, sometimes, singing does not work for them. Children’s books are the best replacements.

3. Potty Trainers. Because soon they will need potty trainers, moms would love to receive these gifts so they would no longer have to buy for their baby boys. Once they have these potty trainers, they will be able to introduce these items to their baby boys and accomplish potty training at an early stage.

4. CDs for Children. There are CDs for children available in record bars. These are CDs that teach babies about the alphabets, shapes, colors, and animals. Some CDs also teach children some children’s songs. Again, these are the kinds of gifts that moms would love their baby boys to receive from people because they help in the mental development of their children.

5. Posters for Kids. At the walls of their babies’ rooms, moms love to put pictures and posters that educate their baby boys. They range from alphabets, shapes, colors, animals, fruits, and even vegetables. These things sort of supplement their educational needs. Through the help of familiarity, children can easily identify letters, shapes, colors, animals, and names of fruits and vegetables. They somehow lessen the hard work on moms.

Yes, receivers should not be choosy when it comes to receiving gifts. But hey, these are moms who love to promote the personal, mental, physical, and emotional developments of their baby boys. So, why not give their baby boys gifts that will help them do their work? The list above has five only; but they surely suit the preference of mothers for their baby boys.

Choosing Thomas — Inside a family’s decision to let their son live, if only for a brief time

Facing death can be hardest for a family expecting new life. Follow TK and Deidrea Lauxs journey after they learn that their unborn son has a genetic disorder called Trisomy 13. They hope the intimate look helps others understand and cope with infant loss. www.dallasnews.com

Issues for Immigrant Parents and Their Children

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Issues for Immigrant Parents and Their Children

Immigrant families to Canada and the United States can face many issues complicating their adjustment to the new host culture.

Often unconsidered is the implications for intra-familial culture clash when children take to the host culture sooner or more wholeheartedly than their parents. Risk of conflict between children and their parents is heightened on issues of socialization with opposite gender friends, developing friends of other cultures, issues of rights and freedoms and expectations for academic performance.

Further, it is important to appreciate that immigrant families come to Canada generally seeking to provide a better life for their children than what might have been available in their country of origin. Hence when these parents come up against conflict with their children owing to adaptation, the conflict can be felt by the parent as tremendous disrespect by the child who doesn’t understand the parents’ rationale and sacrifice in coming to the new country.

While there are common challenges faced between immigrant parents and children of both gender, risk of pregnancy is a potent issue that can intensify concerns for the well-being of girls. In addition, strong cultural imperatives with regard to dress, deportment and socializing with the opposite sex can at times place greater demands on girls than boys.

These differences can erupt into serious fights between daughters and parents. Even when a fight does not erupt, some teenaged girls may seek to lead a double-life; keeping secrets about relationships and even their dress when at school or in the community. Other teenaged girls may seek to subordinate their feelings to the will of their parents only to find themselves depressed and anxious over the difficulty with cultural and family adaptation.

Boys do face cultural imperatives and conflicts too, but the absence of risk of pregnancy can lessen the scrutiny placed upon them by parents. However, the boys may be more subject to high expectations for academic excellence, which may or may not be taken well. If not taken well, boys may come to reject their own family’s culture, falling prey to the illusions of freedom from authority by gravitating to counter-culture groups or gangs. This in turn can lead to a risk of conflict with the law and abject academic failure as well as extreme conflict with their family.

The challenge is on the parents to adapt and find reasonable strategies to support cultural expectations in view of the greater likelihood that their children will be affected and changed by the new host culture. It is less a question of whether the children will be changed by the host culture, but rather how and to what degree. Further, some immigrant parents may hail from cultures where the norm is to tell a child what to do and expect obedience. This quickly erodes for the children socialized particularly in western culture where individual freedom is valued and rewarded. Thus those parents who adjust and develop strategies that minimize the risk of conflict with their children stand the opportunity to remain more influential in their children’s lives than those parents who rely solely upon control strategies.

While not nagging their children, sharing stories as to why parents chose to immigrate and their hopes for their family’s future can inform their children as to their family aspirations. Further, when parents invite their children to engage in a dialogue about the differences between their respective lives non-judgmentally; parents and children may be apprised of their respective experiences and may be in a better position to discuss differences between themselves.

The challenge here is for the parents to develop skills that rely more upon influence than control. This can also be facilitated by participation and enjoyment of cultural activities and inviting their children’s new friends to join in. Co-opting children’s friends can serve as a better way of maintaining family integrity than isolating from friends.

Gary Direnfeld, MSW, RSW
(905) 628-4847

gary@yoursocialworker.com
http://www.yoursocialworker.com

Gary Direnfeld is a social worker. Courts in Ontario, Canada, consider him an expert on child development, parent-child relations, marital and family therapy, custody and access recommendations, social work and an expert for the purpose of giving a critique on a Section 112 (social work) report. Call him for your next conference and for expert opinion on family matters. Services include counselling, mediation, assessment, assessment critiques and workshops.

I watch from the pier as 16 babies float downstream in the sunset to their certain death

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