It's OK to snoop. Get to know your child's online friends just as you would all his or her other friends. Familiarize yourself with the Internet and its features, including buddy lists and online profiles, then move the computer from the bedroom to the living room for easier monitoring.
	Discuss rules, time limits and safeguards with your child and post them near the computer. With a name, age and school listed, your child can be easily identified in a yearbook. Never post pictures of your child online.
	Offenders try to create situations in which they have more access to the victim. Monitor your child's free time. Watch for red flags: if children are engaging in sexual relations at a young age, they tend to exhibit a more mature sense of sexuality or act out.
	Encourage your child to tell you about anything strange or upsetting, and don't overreact when he or she does. Barring your child from the Internet could drive him or her to another location - and out of your eyesight.

 

Principles of Kwanzaa
Kwanzaa, which means "first fruits of the harvest" in the African language of Kiswahili, was established in 1966 as an African-American celebration.  It is based on seven guiding principles, one for each of the seven days of observance. They are:
	Umoja, or unity: To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
	Kujichagulia, self-determination: To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.
	Ujima, collective work and responsibility: To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and solve them together.
	Ujamaa, cooperative economics: To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses to profit from them together.
	Nia, purpose: To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
	Kuumba, creativity: To do always as much as we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than when we inherited it.
	Imani, faith: To believe with all our heart in people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.