Protecting Your Family
Focus on the Family Safety Resources
Most parents are aware of the negative influences their children encounter on a daily basis. The Internet, television, movies, music and the culture at large can bombard our families with a vast array of images and messages that range from unhealthy to downright dangerous. Many parents, while fearful of the dangers, are ill-equipped to deal with the problem, often choosing to ignore it and hope for the best.
Focus on the Family's family safety resources are intended to equip families with the tools to combat these threats. Consider bookmarking this page and watching for new resources. Most of all, equip your family to live fearlessly!
YouDiligence™
Bsecure™ Family Protection Free Bsecure Mobile™ iPhone & iPod Touch Internet FilteringCovenant Eyes® Accountability and Filtering Safe Eyes® Internet Parental Control Safe Eyes Mobile™ iPhone & iPod Touch Internet Filtering
ClearPlay®
Mpower TiVo® KidZoneFamily Values Cinema
Social Networking Safety Resources
YouDiligence™ MySpace and Facebook Monitoring
YouDiligence™ is a web-based service that gives parents the power to be proactive in protecting their children from online predators and cyber-bullies. YouDiligence scans your kids' MySpace and Facebook pages for inappropriate content without complicated software installation or downloads. As a parent, you simply indicate which words you want YouDiligence to monitor. Whenever those keywords are used on your child's MySpace or Facebook page, you'll be immediately alerted by e-mail with the context and location of those words, allowing you to react to potentially dangerous situations. No matter whose phone or computer your child is posting from, you can feel comfortable knowing that YouDiligence is monitoring the activity. Save your child's life with YouDiligence while allowing them to use the Internet safely. Click here for a 30-Day Free Trial.
Internet Safety Software Resources
Bsecure™ Parental Controls and Accountability
Bsecure (formerly Bsafe Online), an award-winning filtering and online security solution puts parents in control of the Internet. Protecting families like yours since 2001, Bsecure is the most advanced and trusted filter — endorsed by more Christian organizations than any other. Choose flexible options on reporting, when the Internet can be accessed, what websites are visited, which social networking sites are allowed, filter and monitor IM conversations, and much more. Protect your family today by downloading Bsecure! Now protects up to 3 computers for one affordable price.
Free Bsecure Mobile™ iPhone & iTouch Internet Filtering
Bsecure (formerly Bsafe Online), an award-winning filtering and online security solution with 10 years experience, now also protects iPhone and iPod Touch users for free. Bsecure Mobile is automatically updated and protects your family from accessing millions of Web sites categorized as pornography or malware. Bsecure Mobile™ also provides a password protected local block feature to block uncategorized or unwanted sites. No registration or account is required. Click here to download the free Bsecure Mobile™ browser from the iTunes store.
Covenant Eyes® Accountability and Filtering
Covenant Eyes® provides Internet Accountability services with easy-to-read reports and/or Filtering that allows you to block offensive websites and control how and when the Internet is used. Covenant Eyes Internet Accountability removes the secrecy of how the Internet is used by monitoring the websites visited and emailing reports to Accountability Partners you choose. Accountability Partners are parents or trusted individuals selected by the member to review reports and discuss how the Internet is used. Reports are emailed to the Partner or viewed online from our Member Center. Sign up for Covenant Eyes Accountability and Filtering and receive 60 days free!
Safe Eyes® Internet Parental Control
Safe Eyes has earned PC Magazine's Editor's Choice for parental-control software two years running! Filter objectionable material — including social networking, IM, email, and websites — while receiving immediate alerts if questionable activity occurs! You get it all — weekly reports, PC and Mac compatibility, usage on up to three computers — for one low price! Start protecting your family with top-rated Safe Eyes today. Download now!
Safe Eyes Mobile™ iPhone & iPod Touch Internet Filtering
Protect iPhone and iPod Touch users from inappropriate web content with this browser from InternetSafety.com™ — the makers of Safe Eyes® — the leading parental control suite for the PC & Mac. With Safe Eyes Mobile you will have access to familiar features such as bookmarks and multi-page view in addition to powerful Internet filtering. Now your family can enjoy Internet-on-the-go without the worries. To learn more about Safe Eyes Mobile visit www.safeeyes.com/iphone or click here to download Safe Eyes Mobile from the iTunes store. You can also watch a demo!
Media Safety Resources
ClearPlay®
ClearPlay® is a DVD player that lets you watch regular DVD's while editing out the sex, violence and profanity you don't want to see, all based on your family's preferences. You can watch a DVD "as is" without edits or navigate the simple user interface to edit out the language, violence, nudity, sexual content, and more, that you don't want to see. It's easy to use and easy to set up. Get the details about a special offer for Focus on the Family constituents.
Mpower
TV? Yes. Offensive scenes? No.
MPOWER puts you in control.
Available summer 2010, Mpower will make TV watching and Internet surfing truly worry-free. It'll be the perfect way to protect the innocence of your children from offensive content that you don't want them to see. The Mpower Box will let you automatically skip a single curse word, sexually suggestive commercial or violent scene, leaving the rest of the TV program intact. And it will block offensive web content from the computers in your home.
With Mpower, you will be able to make the choices based on your values — not someone else's! We'd like to hear from you. To let your voice be heard and learn more about Mpower, please take this short national survey and receive two free gifts from Mpower. See how it works.
TiVo® KidZone
With TiVo® KidZone you can make television viewing safer for your family. KidZone empowers parents to choose programming that they approve and filter their selections through their TiVo receiver. TiVo also gives parents insight on specific programs, so they can feel more confident in handing the remote to the kids!
Special offer for Focus on the Family constituents
Family Values Cinema
FVC is offering our families a FREE Family Movie Night Package (only $3.95 s&h), including a $25 restaurant gift certificate, just for trying them out. Each movie Family Values Cinema pre-selects has been family-approved by the National Board of Mothers. Every month, member families receive everything they need to enjoy a night of family togetherness - one or two family-friendly movies, a family discussion guide that poses questions about the movie's themes and morals, a unique family activity, and a recipe card for a delicious movie-time snack. Members also receive a portable collector's case to keep and collect their movies.
Click here to receive your FREE Movie Night Package and $25 restaurant gift certificate (only $3.95 s&h) today!