Club TUKI Winner Spends $10,000 on a Nintendo WII Console

A Club TUKI Primo member earned over $10,000 TUKI Moola by playing our educational games and making the most of $5.00 Fridays!

She saved and saved and saved her money for almost a year so she could win the Nintendo Wii console.  This just is another example of how our educational reward system is proving itself to teach kids how to be responsible Internet citizens, as well as other subjects like math and geography…AND helping them with their financial literacy!

If you have not yet checked out Club TUKI, get your kids involved today at www.ClubTuki.com.

New Email System For Club TUKI & Our Kid Safe Browsers

We have some exciting news about your Child’s Club TUKI Email account to share with you!

On Wednesday, May 7th, 2008, we will be launching our new Web-based email system that includes the added security of our Buddy List concept that has been used within our Browser-based email program for years.

On Tuesday, May 6th, 2008, we will be taking our current system off-line to begin the changes. We will be working throughout the day and night to have the new system on-line, Wednesday morning, May 7th, 2008 .

The first thing that you need to know is that ONLY PAID MEMBERS, Children and Parents, will have access to the new Web-based email system.

The new Web-based email system works on the Buddy List concept, meaning your child can only receive email from approved buddies. We have also given the parent the ability to allow their child to ‘SEND’ email to anyone, but they will only be able to receive and view emails from approved buddies.

The new Web-based email also comes with an email account for the parents to use. The parent email accounts do not have the same restriction of only being able to send to buddies. Parents can send to everyone. Parents will also have an inbox for each child user account that will display any email sent to your child from a ‘non buddy’.

The next thing that you need to know is that all email addresses with the @iq2u.net domain will be changing. Not the entire email address, just the domain, or the part after the @ symbol. Because you are one of our original users, the email domain is currently ‘@iq2u.net’. The domain will be changing to ‘@tuki.com’.

For example, if your child’s current email address is ‘carebear@iq2u.net’, once the change to the new email system is complete, the new email address will be ‘carebear@tuki.com’. They will need to notify their current email buddies of the email address change so that they can continue to send emails to your child without any interuption.

Also, because of the changes and differences between the current email system, and the new Web-based email system, any emails that your child currently has in their inbox, that they want to keep, MUST be forwarded to someone on your buddy list, so that they can send them back to you. Please be sure to forward them to a buddy that does not have the @tuki.com email address.

So start right away and help notify your child’s buddies of their new email address and send the emails they want to keep to Mom, Dad, Grandparents or anyone else you may choose. Then on Wednesday, May 7th, 2008, when the new email system is on-line, their buddy can send them back to them and they will have them in their new inbox.

If you don’t forward them to a buddy to be sent back, the current emails will be deleted. We apologize for any inconvenience that this might cause our users, but we think it’s worth the effort to have the new email system on-line.

Please do not hesitate to contact our support staff by email at our support site www.tukisupport.com for more information.

Sincerely,

Greg Writer
CEO and Founder

McGruff Helps Families, Schools, and Law Enforcement Take A Bite Out of Internet Crimes Against Kids

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) April 22, 2008 — In an effort to take a bite out of Internet crimes against kids, the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) and Children’s Educational Network (CEN) announce the launch of McGruff Kid Safe Browser(www.McGruffBrowser.com).

Using CEN’s The Ultimate Kids Internet (www.TUKI.com) technology, this new “keep kids safe online” software will come complete with easy-to-use parental controls that allow children to surf the Internet in a safer and more educational environment that is the perfect tool for schools, law enforcement and families. Approximately 53 million American youth, ages 4 to 16, access the Internet from their homes each day. Few use computers enabled with systems (parental controls) that protect them from accessing websites with pornographic materials or being vulnerable to Internet predators.

Greg Writer, founder and CEO of CEN, watched as the number of online-related crimes against children began to rise in the late 1990s. But he didn’t sit on the sidelines and complain. As a father of five with a background in investment banking, he created CEN and its parental controlled software for private labeling. “I am excited to work with NCPC. This makes an incredible statement as to where we are as a company and where we are going as a Nation in the fight against Internet crimes against children,” he explains. “With McGruff we can reach youth audiences and the crime fighting community, offering a McGruff branded browser and educational tools that address this very important issue,” Greg states.

With one glance at the most recent Internet safety statistics, most will agree this is a problem that needs a lot of attention and advanced tools offered by CEN & NCPC to keep our kids safe.

* 79% of sexual solicitation incidents happened to youth while they were using their home computer

*  43% of youth report that they have experienced some form of cyber-bullying in the last year. The incidence of cyber-bullying is most prevalent among 15- and 16-year-olds, particularly among girls.

*  56% of solicitations contained a request for the youth to send photographs of themselves to the solicitor and 27% of solicitations contained a request for the youth to send a sexual picture of themselves
“The McGruff Kid Safe Browser (www.McGruffBrowser.com) provides parents, schools and law enforcement with the tools they need to protect children from inappropriate web content while encouraging children to utilize the Internet’s educational resources,” said NCPC President and CEO Al Lenhardt. “Protecting children is a top priority of NCPC and we are pleased to be partnering with CEN to make this free browser available to parents, educators and others striving to keep our kids safe in our communities.”

The McGruff browser comes complete with parental controls that allow parents to adjust security settings, program animated McGruff with reminders about chores and encouraging words, and add or remove websites from the master include list with the click of the mouse. The browser comes preloaded with themes, all of the best kid sites on the Internet, and a mass of educational content, including access to ClubTUKI (www.clubtuki.com), an online portal where kids get rewarded with virtual money for playing educational games and then get to bid in an auction on real merchandise such as laptops, Xboxes, movies, skateboards, and more.
About the National Crime Prevention Council

The National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) is a private, nonprofit organization whose primary mission is to be the nation’s leader in helping people keep themselves, their families, and their communities safe from crime. NCPC manages public service advertising under the National Citizens’ Crime Prevention Campaign–symbolized by McGruff the Crime Dog® and his “Take A Bite Out Of Crime®” slogan–and acts as secretariat for the Crime Prevention Coalition of America, more than 400 national, federal, state, and local organizations representing thousands of constituents who are committed to preventing crime. NCPC is funded through a variety of government agencies, corporate and private foundations, and donations from private individuals. For more information on crime prevention issues, visit www.ncpc.org .

TUKI Seminars For Parents – Tonight 6pm PST

Ex NBA Player Jim Brogan will be our guest tonight and coaching on “Goal Setting” for your kids.  Here is some information on Jim:

Author, Advisor, Professional Speaker, and Mentorwith over 20 Years of Experience 

Jim Brogan is an author, instructor, leader, and dynamic speaker who has earned national recognition as an inspirational speaker and advisor. He is well- known and highly respected authority on peak performance for teens, CEOs, coaches, and elite athletes from the NFL, MLB, and NBA.

What started as a commitment to helping a few individuals improve the quality of their academic and athletic performance has grown into a dynamic program for assisting teenagers across the United States to become strong, successful, well-rounded people.

In 1988, Jim produced the first video version of the Standards of Excellence program. Then in 1992, the Standards of Excellence went to an audio version. With the success of these programs, a newer version was produced in 1997 called Making a Difference, which was extremely successful in impacting teenagers’ lives. The latest and most up-to-date version of Jim’s program is 10 Steps to Success, now available through this website.

Jim is a former professional basketball player in the NBA. He had the privilege of starting his career with the Golden State Warriors and finished with the San Diego Clippers. He is a graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College, with degrees in business and psychology. Jim is coauthor of the book titled Inspiring Others to Win. He has delivered over 1,000 presentations to corporations, businesses, and schools teaching effective techniques for gaining life skills. From 1994 to 2000, he was the keynote speaker for the DARE program in San Diego, California. Since 1996, he has been a keynote speaker for the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Conference. He is on the President’s Advisory Council for West Virginia Wesleyan College, the advisory board for Pro Kennex, and is the President of the Pitch It Forward Foundation.

Jim was born in Merion, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia, and attended Lower Merion High School. He is married to CJ Thornberry-Brogan and they own and show their five Cavalier King Charles Spaniel dogs.

To register for our Tuki Seminars for Parents please register at www.tukiseminars.com .

John McCain’s remarks about the Pledge of Allegiance

I came across this and wanted to share!  Please leave your comments and let us know what you think!

‘The Pledge  of Allegiance’ -
                   by Senator John McCain 
 

‘As you may know, I  spent five and one half years as a prisoner of war during the  Vietnam War. In the early years of our imprisonment, the NVA  kept us in solitary confinement or two or three to a cell. In  1971 the NVA moved us from these conditions of isolation into  large rooms with as many as 30 to 40 men to a  room. 
  

This was, as you can  imagine, a wonderful change and was a direct result of the  efforts of millions of Americans on behalf of a few hundred  POWs 10,000 miles from home.  
 
One of the men who moved  into my room was a young man named Mike  Christian.
  
Mike came from a small  town near Selma , Alabama He didn’t wear a pair of shoes & nbsp;u ntil he was 13 years old. At 17, he enlisted in the US Navy.  He later earned a commission by going to Officer Training  School Then he became a Naval Flight Officer and was shot down  and captured in 1967. Mike had a keen and deep appreciation of  the opportunities this country and our military provide for  people who want to work and want to  succeed.  
 
As part of the change in  treatment, the Vietnamese allowed some prisoners to receive  packages from home. In some of these packages were  handkerchiefs, scarves and other items of  clothing. 
  
Mike got himself a  bamboo needle. Over a period of a couple of months, he created  an American flag and sewed on the inside of his  shirt.  

Every afternoon, before  we had a bowl of soup, we would hang Mike’s shirt on the wall  of the cell and say the Pledge of  Allegiance.  

I know the Pledge of  Allegiance may not seem the most important part of our day  now, but I can assure you that in that stark cell it was  indeed the most important and meaningful  event.
 
One day the Vietnamese  searched our cell, as they did periodically, and discovered  Mike’s shirt with the flag sewn inside, and removed  it.  
 
That evening they  returned, opened the door of the cell, and for the benefit of  all of us, beat Mike Christian severely for the next couple of  hours. Then, they opened the door of the cell and threw him  in. We cleaned him up as well as we  could. 
  
The cell in which we  lived had a concrete slab in the middle on which we slept Four naked light bulbs hung in each corner of the  room. 
  
As I said, we tried to clean up Mike as well as we could. After the excitement died down, I looked in the corner of the room, and sitting there beneath that dim light bulb with a piece of red cloth, another shirt and his bamboo needle, was my friend, Mike Christian. He was sitting there with his eyes almost shut from the beating he had received, making another American flag. He was not making the flag because it made Mike Christian feel better. He was making that flag because he knew how important it was to  us to be able to Pledge our allegiance to our flag and  country. 
  
So the next time you say  the Pledge of Allegiance, you must never forget the sacrifice  and courage that thousands of Americans have made to build our  nation and promote freedom around the world. You must remember  our duty, our honor, and our  country.’ 
  
‘I pledge allegiance to  the flag of the United States of America and to the republic  for which it stands, one nation  under  God, indivisable, with  liberty and justice for all.’