Parental Control Monologue

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Dixie: I think that using your credit cards online these days is wrong. I feel that I have to protect what I have and that putting my information out there that I would be harming myself. I do know that a lot of people do this but this is not for me.
Parental controls are another thing that I feel is very important. I have to watch everything my oldest granddaughter does on the internet. I think that parent controls are important because their some really scary things going on in this world today. I would never want anything to happen to my kids or grandkids and find that it had something to do with the internet. So if I can prevent this then parental controls is what it is.

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