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  • Sheridan, Wyoming, United States
06/26/2021

How To Protect Your Kids Online

As I have already mentioned, there are all sorts of craziness lurking on the Internet, lurking in wait for unsuspecting children and young people who are not smart enough to get out of their way. If you have never come to terms with the fact that your children are on the Internet, the tips in this article will make it a little easier for you to rest if you know that you are doing everything you can to protect them. It helps to know what your kids are writing, downloading, searching and watching. 

It can be challenging to supervise children exposed to inappropriate online content, but it is vital that we model appropriate behavior and communicate the importance of online safety to keep children safe. In this article, I will share my knowledge of how to protect your children from the dark side of the Internet. I often get caught up in all the great ways to use parental controls and protect your child when they are online, and forget to list a few non-technical ways to protect them. 

Talk To Your Children

If you happen to come across inappropriate content or online behavior, you can talk to them about security. Your childhood on the Internet is not idle, and there is always a small chance of drifting into unwanted parts of the Internet. Once your children have a better understanding of how to use the Internet safely, you should think about monitoring them more closely. 

When children talk to trustworthy adults, they should understand the online risks of chatting to people they know, make sure their online accounts are private, and block people they don’t know, trust, or trust because their instincts make them feel uncomfortable when a trustworthy adult tells them about it.

If you allow your children to communicate or chat with online friends, make sure that they are indeed your children’s real friends, and tell them that they should not do so with strangers who are child predators or identity thieves posing as friends. Help children create personal, identity-secure chat rooms with nicknames, online chat sites like Club Penguin and other children’s virtual worlds, and memberships that do not contain their real names or other private information. 

I also recommend parents with young children to play security games with them on the Internet to ensure that everyone is up to date with the latest threats. Children who are connected to the Internet are often in public or in family rooms where they are not looked over their shoulder. 

Use Child Protection Software

Child protection software such as Kaspersky Safe Kids provides an easy solution to monitor and manage your children’s online activities. Open channels of communication are crucial for many aspects of parenting and especially online safety. Cyberbullying is something that children do not want to mention because they are afraid of getting into trouble or losing their internet access. 

Parental control software, which monitors the whereabouts of your children, can make it easier for you to limit the time your children spend on the Internet and provide an effective way to ensure that they avoid unwanted websites. Although adult sites like BeNaughty take measures to prevent children from accessing them, it’s important to take matters into your own hands.

Many children tend to share as much as possible with their families, but parents should stress the slippery slope of it all. From criminal behavior to OSINT (open source intelligence) to social networks that commit various scams, it is a bad idea to let your children reveal too much personal information online.

Online tools that allow you to control your children’s access to adult material can help protect them from Internet predators. You can also get software to help you block access to websites and restrict what personal information can be sent online. It is more important than blocking offensive material to teach your children safe and responsible online behaviour and to keep an eye on their internet use.

Find out what online protection your child is offered at school, in school centres, at friends “homes and in places where children use computers without your supervision. You can also consider child protection apps to help you accomplish this task. Once you have established guidelines, check in regularly with your children to make sure they are complying with them. 

Surveillance and limitation of your children’s cyberspace is normal in today’s world. If you are worried about your children being exposed to the Internet, there are a few ways to help them stay safe wherever they are. An effective parental control tool is a one-stop solution that grants you sufficient privileges on your child’s device without taking any risks with regard to their safety. 

It works best when paired with a healthy dose of respect for the freedom of their internet-savvy children. In order not to lose this battle, it is important to respect the technical aspects of online control and the ability of children to counteract poor safety measures. Children are born into a world of tablets and smartphones, and many adults lack the convenience of the Internet. 

With the right tools and attitude, parents can help make their children less disturbing online. Parents can stay active in their digital world by knowing which apps they are using, using parental control as much as possible, and blocking or reporting people who feel uncomfortable. Prior to COVID-19, children and adults were more or less unsupervised in the same room. 

Most Internet providers offer free parental control software to help parents keep their children safe online. Take a look at how devices like Disney Circle can be set up to monitor and control your family’s Internet access. If your children do not comply with your usage guidelines, use parental control software to enforce usage periods and amounts. 

Monitor Your Children’s Internet Usage

Keep your eyes peeled for the children’s chat activities and don’t let them chat alone. When using apps and websites where children interact, predators can pose as children or teenagers who want to make new friends. They can get them to exchange personal information such as addresses and phone numbers, and encourage children to call the predator to see the phone number and caller ID. 

Make it your priority as a parent to understand what you have posted here: our children are exposed to personal information on the Internet, and this information is built up throughout their childhood and adolescence. I do not think it is espionage, trust, verification or surveillance, but you should continue to have a dialogue with your children and young people about the safety of the Internet. When I give Internet safety classes to K-12, university and college kids, I learn that children know how to protect their privacy and safety. 

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