Glubble, a family site

Day four of this headache...but today it kicked up a notch. It finally turned into a full fledged migraine.

Today I got an email from my sister-in-law. She told me that my nieces, Silly, Boo, and Monster, are getting old enough to where they are learning to use the computer. She said that she has even seen them do searches on Google for things like butterflies and such. The girls are 9, 8, and 3.

She made a good point, one misspelled word could lead them to a porn site or something so she signed up for this thing called Glubble. Its a browser for kids and it protects them from accidentally clicking on a site that is not suitable for them. From what I can tell, it gives the kids a list of suitable sites it can pick from to find the information they are looking for. It's a family site, so the only people that can see my nieces and what they are doing is family. There's no instant messaging but we can leave messages on a wall - similar to facebook - but only the family can see that wall. The coolest part is that the adults can see what the kids are actually doing online. For instance, when I signed in today I saw that Boo was looking up information on horses (her favorite animal) and Silly was looking up how to spell a word.

She also wrote this:
What you see when you sign onto Glubble, is not what the kids see. When they sign on, the entire browser "blows up", and they are in a "protected zone". What they see is a completely different browser. So while we can navigate the Glubble page in Internet Explorer, or Firefox, it just looks like any other website to us. For them, Glubble IS their browser. Glubble for them is what IE or Firefox is to us. They have hundreds upon hundreds of pre-approved sites that have been reviewed by the Glubble team, that the kids can search and explore. Also, I can add sites Ive approved myself for them to view, that Glubble may not have found yet. In addition to that, I can remove any site that is in the site library (the library is where the pre-approved sites are). You can actually do this too. If the kids try and view a site NOT approved, they are prompted for a password, which they do not have. The kids can not leave this "Glubble browser" without this password either.

I commend the creator of Glubble. I recommend this site to anyone who has young children.