Sunday, March 1, 2009

Have You Heard of KidZui?


It's called the web browser for kids and is marketed as containing only parent and teacher approved sites. I thought it might be worth passing the website along as I know all to well the anxiety a parent feels when their kids learn to Google. Especially when they're spelling isn't all that great and their curiosity is high. Kids don't recognize the very real dangers awaiting an invitation to attack your computer's hard drive or even worse, their very impressionable young minds.

This winning idea of a web browser is promoted as 100% free to use and claims to be a great source for finding educational videos and websites. I'm using words like "promoted as" and "claims to be" since the site is new to me and I've not yet tested it out.

Here's another thing to like... you'll get free weekly emails letting you know what types of things your kids are looking up. You can also add websites to the browser that you have found and want your kids to have access to.

Our computer is in the family room and our main living space is very open, making it hard for us not to see what our kids are looking at. My big anxiety has never been that they would deliberately go looking for inappropriate material, but that the inappropriate material would find them, as they innocently searched for subjects of interest. My kids are still young, and at ages 6 and 7 I'm in no hurry whatsoever to have to explain certain things to them. So, KidZui is definitely perking my interest!

Let me know if you've had opinions of this kid safe web browser. Have you used it before? Are you excited to see it in action?

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