The United States Senate has unanimously passed a resolution declaring June as National Internet Safety Month.  In a scary statistic, pedophiles operate more than ten thousand websites and hundreds more are created monthly.

It's a world that you can have access to anything you want and learn about anything in the world, but it's also becoming a world for online predators.

"Even though there are a lot of good things on the computer just with everything else, there is a lot of bad or pitfalls they could fall into," said Kim Ellis.

Ellis works with the Pocatello Police Department to find internet predators and people that are posing on social networking sites, like myspace.com, as teenagers looking to talk to your children.

"Parents fail to spend the time actually talking to their kids about what kind of things they could meet or come across as they travel the super information highway on the internet," said Ellis.

"The internet is a tremendous tool.  You can use the internet for anything you want.  You can learn just about everything.  The problem is that adults use the internet to pay bills, find travel arraignments.  Those kinds of things we use it as a working tool.  The youth use the internet as entertainment," he said.

National statistics show that 35-million children from kindergarten to grade 12 have internet access and one in seven youth ages 10 to 17 received a sexual solicitation or approach over the internet.

"Parents need to get involved with what their kids are doing online," said Ellis.

He says if your children have a profile on myspace.com or other social networking sites, make sure to know their password, their email address and their screen names so you can log on and make sure your child is not becoming victim to predators just lurking on the other side of the monitor.

"You walk in the room and your kid flips the computer screen around to something else or the computer screen goes blank, all of a sudden your child is being secretive about what he's doing online, doesn't want anybody to view their conservations, you might want to start investigating," said Ellis.

Pocatello Police say if you feel like your child may have been harassed or abused via the internet, give them a call or your local police station.