Work first, play later. Chores, practice, and homework come before computer games or talking with friends.
Get out and enjoy the world. The computer is not the world. Thank the timer software for helping you have a life.
Feel free to use the software Dad put on your Start menu, but ask for help before using other software. If an application asks you to do something you don’t understand, ask Mom or Dad about it.
Don’t delete or otherwise mess with other people’s files. Don’t mess with other people’s preferences settings or system settings either. You have your own account to mess around with.
Save to your own folder, not to the application’s folder.
Printer ink is expensive—don’t waste it.
Log off instead of switching users.
Never, never, never give out personal information on the Internet. Not even your first name, not to anyone. Name, age, town, address, phone number, a picture, and so forth are examples of personal information. Don’t talk to strangers (some strangers may know your name, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t a stranger).
If you see something weird or bad, leave the computer and tell Mom or Dad.
Use Firefox only, and only go to sites listed on the Wake Children’s Bookmarks web page, unless Mom or Dad says another site is OK. This applies to any computer anywhere, although at school your teachers can approve going to any web site that Mom and Dad haven’t prohibited.
No e-mail, chat, IM, FTP, newsgroups, etc., unless Mom or Dad says it’s OK. If you’re allowed to use Windows Live Messenger, you must keep your privacy settings set to only allow people Mom or Dad put on your allowed list to communicate with you. No using web-based services of any kind, from anywhere, except XMission webmail or approved school-related things. This means no free e-mail accounts, no personal blogs, no online journals, no free web hosting, and so forth.
Do not relax the spam filter settings. Dad can change them if they seem to be causing a problem.
Do not ever mess with the Cybersitter filter.
Do not ever use Dad's XMission password.