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This week the FBI released guidelines designed to prevent children from falling victim to Internet predators and cyber bullies.

Their suggestions are good ones, and could be very effective depending on the type of kid you have. Sure, "talking openly" about your suspicions to your child might get some kids to open up about inappropriate behaviors happening online, but the truth is that a lot of kids don't talk to their parents about anything, let alone something like this.

And it's hard to use caller ID to "determine who is calling your child" when so many of them have cell phones today.

But, the suggestion to "monitor your child's access" to the Internet is spot on, particularly when parents look to invisible parental control software to do the job.

Why invisible? Because headstrong or even just naive kids like to think they know it all, and that you're just plain wrong about their new online "friend."

And that's normal.

But it's a parent's job to watch over their kid even when they don't want to be watched, and to protect them even when they hate being protected. It's one of those things they'll hate you for now, but love you for later.

Sadly, also normal.

So invisible parental control software allows you to do what the FBI thinks you should - namely make sure that online predators aren't preying on your kid - without that kid realizing that mom and dad are still watching over them.

It's an evasive maneuver that your kid might not appreciate, but it could save their lives from someone's whose intentions toward your child are anything but normal.