Ten tips on how you can help your children stay safe online.

As we benefit from this age of technological revolution, it is also increasingly important to be aware of the new risks which both ourselves and our children face online. To celebrate Safer Internet Day 2020, here are our ten tips on how you can help your children stay safe online!

1. Have regular conversations with your child about how they use technology. Be interested in what they are doing online and how being online makes them feel.

2. There are lots of tools to help you manage the devices used by your family. For example, knowing how to activate and use parental controls can help protect your child from seeing inappropriate content online.

3. Spend time with your child looking at and interacting with the things they do online. Talk about the positive and negative aspects of being online and encourage your child to make safe choices rather than giving them lots of restrictions.

4. It can sometimes feel like young people are experts in all things digital but remember that even if you don’t understand the details of your child’s technology, you should continue to give parental advice on its general usage of technology and its role in your household.

5. Always keep your personal information safe online; other people online may not always be who they appear to be. Talk to your child about who they are friends with online.

6. If someone is treating your child unkindly on the internet, they may be scared to tell you. You should encourage them to talk to you or someone at school about it. Remind them that they can easily block anyone who is bothering them and help them if they cannot do it themselves.

7. Explain to your child that the rules they follow every day in real life also apply when they are on the internet. It is important to treat people on the internet the way you would like to be treated.

8. You should remind your child that their private information, including full name, street address, name of their school, passwords and email address should not be shared online without asking you first.

9. Explain to your child that they should never post pictures of containing their school uniform, the front of their house or anywhere they can be traced from.

10. Many children like to post videos on YouTube. Make sure you have privacy settings on these for friends and family only so that what they post is not available for everyone to see.

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