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Latchkey Kids

6 Ways to Protect Your Latchkey Child

By Steve Cross

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5. Give them emergency contact numbers, friends or neighbors who you trust to have good judgment if you aren't available, for when you can't get home fast enough.

6. Make sure the kids understand Internet security too. You aren't there and you need to know what they're doing on their computers. Look into Internet Monitoring Software – low-cost products that invisibly monitor the activities of your kids and privately e-mails you the results as often as you like. The best of these software products track Internet sites visited, downloads, chat room conversations and IM.

Steve Cross is the president of Guardian Software and author of Changing Channels (Xlibris Corporation, 2002).


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