Chatman is a physical figure which plugs into your child’s computer via a USB port and comes with his own software. Chatman sits by your child’s computer and interacts with him/her in the following ways:

• Via direct chatting with Chatman
• By responding to their Internet chats with friends (if they use Facebook™, MSN™ or Skype™).
• By helping your child with their homework
• Providing voice reminders, games, videos and more!
• Suggesting appropriate activities for different times of day, such as morning or evening routine activities.
• Developing a caring, sharing relationship, giving your child a way to express their thoughts and creativity.

Imagine you could upgrade the time your children spend using the computer to a more valuable, productive, and educational experience. Imagine an online experience packed with special activities, in which your children could learn in a stimulating environment that would teach them how to work safely when using computers. Picture that you, as a parent, could define (with or without your children) words and types of content that are inappropriate for them, and alert them when these words or contents are encountered. Moreover, imagine all of this happening in a FUN environment, enhanced with extra sounds, voices, personalities, and cool applications.

Chatman is one of the best children’s educational products available. Chatman is mostly about fun, but there is a serious side to it as well. The world of computers, internet and online chats are often devoid of emotion. It can be hard for children to understand the emotional content of the messages they receive, or to understand the emotional impact of the messages they send. Chatman encourages emotional development in your child through direct communication with Chatman or while they are online with Chatman. With the ability to recognize and interpret the moods of over 15,000 words, Chatman will help your child identify topics that are happy, mysterious, bored and many more.

While Chatman is a fun and entertaining companion, he is also meant to be used as a tool that can help your child develop a better understanding of the emotional impact of words. He’s a real life emoticon and one of the best children’s educational toys available!

As a communication device, Chatman helps your child become better attuned to the cause and effect of words. Chatman is about hearing a reaction, improving emotional intelligence, teaching normative communication skills and encouraging verbal creativity– within a safe, mediated and controlled environment. This means that Chatman will react to chat conversations by recognizing specific words and topics that are used, and will provide verbal insight into the mood of the conversation. He'll say things that are directly related to the conversation, in an entertainning and thought provoking way. He'll also alert your child when he senses topics that are dangerous. Chatman understands a wide variety of current, commonly used slang and accronyms, helping your child interpret the implications of these "codes". It's loads of fun too!

Chatman is all about safety and making your child’s time in front of the computer more secure. A valuable parental internet control, Chatman works on many levels to provide a safer online experience:

• Provides alerts in response to predefined unsafe or inappropriate messages.
• Allows for parents and/or children to define words and content that are inappropriate.
• Provides special entertainment areas with safe content, including games, fun videos, educational videos, and applications that have all been reviewed and filtered.
• Allows for safe, secure web browsing of filtered and defined web content, including safe image searching.

Rondyo makes significant efforts to ensure offensive material is not uploaded onto the Chatman site. We encourage you to report anything offensive you may have come across and that we may have missed. You or your child can easily do this by clicking on the ‘Report Abuse’ button in the Chit Chats list. Reported items will be reviewed and removed if deemed in violation of our Terms & Conditions.

Disclaimer: Chatman has functionality that can assist in the direction and protection of children when using the internet. While he is able to alert and guide children, Chatman is not a substitute for parental supervision or for specialised child protection tools that may limit the child’s activity on the internet.

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