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Online Safety For Kids-What You Should Be Doing

By Niel Fernan


Certainly you want to protect your children when they are using the internet, but policing them every minute may bring the opposite results you want. So how do you find the right balance? Hopefully your children have enough common sense to avoid trouble, and then you will have no trouble trusting them. Looking over someone's shoulder or spying is not necessarily a very good way to give guidance. It is good to give your children some freedom as they grow up, and the following hints will provide some protection while they are online.

Looking at websites that are not for children is the reason why too much privacy is not good for them. It is a parents responsibility to raise the children, and therefore it is their duty to monitor what they are watching online, because there are websites that could be a danger to a young child. To keep an eye on the children, especially pre-teens, the computer that they are able to use should be in a family place, so that they are not in the room alone. Being online is not something that small children should be allowed to do by themselves in their own room.

If you are a child and have friends, and would like some privacy, your parents will want to know everything you are doing, but it just shows that they care. Children quite often need to be protected from influences that end up being harmful, and that is up to the parents. Knowing what your children are doing online might be even more important for the parent to know. On the internet, you can claim to be anything you choose to be, and so can everyone else. Instruct your children to keep quiet about personal information, especially if they have never met in person, and try to keep aware of their online friends. They should never give out their address or home phone number or send pictures of themselves to strangers.

You may have protection for your children when they are on the computer, but do not forget their mobile phone internet access. The new smart phones are equipped with web access and can allow communication to your juvenile with undesirable persons. You child needs comprehend the importance of using caution when they use their phone for a camera. With the GPS systems installed right in the mobile phone, you may be able to track people, but they are able to track you at the same time. This is more grounds not to compromise your watch over your kids and their internet experiences.

Send emails and instant messages every so often. This will help you and your child stay in the same universe. Just being ever vigilant towards your kids and their web applications can let you rest at ease. As trusting as you may be with your child, they need to be very careful when surfing the net, given the many risks it can pose. By being wary of the places your kids are logged into, you should be able to rest easier.




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