Heres a more reliable defensive strategy to protect growing kids from online dangers: filtering monitoring accountability (respectful conversations) Covenant Eyes can help with all three strategies.

Many tech savvy kids merely see filters as fences to climb over.

Even if your child doesnt seek a way to get past filters, their friends (or friends of friends) probably will.

Im going to show you 10 ways young people can easily circumvent internet filters.

Then I will reveal a powerful system parents can use that not only protects tweens and teens, but also teaches them to use technology well.

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Use a friends smartphone.

How many Internet-enabled devices are available to your child at their friends house Do those friends have older siblings These are important questions to answer.

Way too often, mom and dads phones dont have the same protections or restrictions on them as the Internet-ready devices used by kids.

It speaks volumes to a kid about trust and respect when he sees his parents trying to obey the same internet safety rules even if its inconvenient.

Use public Wi-Fi.

Its quite easy to stand in the parking lot of your local library and use their wireless signal, even after hours.

If you have your own router filtered at home, this is great, but unfiltered Wi-Fi is everywhere.

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Download a VPN. A virtual private network (VPN) creates encrypted peer-to-peer connections, thereby protecting all information shared over the VPN and circumventing most any filtering on the device.

VPNs are available for laptops or downloadable as apps for iPhone or Android devices.

Did you know that every major search engine has a private browsing mode These settings cause the browser to stop tracking web history and are a nightmare for many parental control solutions.

If your only internet safety strategy is monitoring search history, its possible youre missing most of it.

Maybe your son or daughter has an iPhone and youve downloaded a filtered and monitored browser, so you think youre covered.

Did you know that you can still access an unfiltered Internet search through the Weather Channel app The Bible App And, many, many other hidden Internet doorways.

On either a laptop or a mobile device, kids can access proxy websites through the browser and use a separate proxy to direct the data around the web filter, providing easy access.

If your kid has an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, chances are youve used Restrictions to limit adult content in Safari.

But, if you forget to toggle off the iTunes App Store, there are 50 other browsers to download in order to bypass Safari.

Even with restrictions enabled on an iPhone, if you access a Google search bar through a hidden location (see 6 above), you can access inappropriate images through Googles related images under an image that is clicked on.

These related images dont always obey the safe search rules as the original Google search.

Whats the solution Creating an internet-safer environment for your kids requires a multi-faceted approach.

Theres no such thing as set it and forget it when it comes to parenting in the digital age Unfortunately, this is often the message of filters and parental controls.

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