Setting up an internet machine for my kid...need some suggestions

[HeXploiT]

My daughter(9) has been begging me all year to hook up her computer to the web. I'd like to find an app that will let me use firefox with a whitelist of allowed websites so she can only go to the sites that I approve.
Any suggestions?
Also if anyone knows of any good(safe) internet portals for kids I'd be interested in hearing about them.

 

[Sam25]

I've heard of the Glubble add-on for Firefox which is for kids, you could check it out.

 

[mechBgon]

If the computer happens to be Vista Home Basic/Premium/Ultimate, another option is to use Parental Controls to whitelist sites that may be visited.

 

[luq]

if you don't mind shareware, netnanny is a pretty good parental control software, and glubble as sam stated is one of the top-rated free parental control addons for firefox.

 

[sourceninja]

If you have a linksys router, you can install dd-wrt setup static DHCP for her computer and filter it at the router. A lot harder to work around that way.