internet safety

Below are 10 Internet safety tips to ensure your child has a positive online experience.

  1. Keep an open, positive communication about your children's online lives just as you would in their offline lives. Encourage your children to share their Internet experiences with you.
  2. Teach your kids to trust their instincts. Encourage them to tell you about anything that makes them feel threatened, nervous or uncomfortable.
  3. If a login is required for a site, help your child choose a name that doesn't reveal any personal information about them.
  4. Tell your children never give out their address, phone number, or other personal information, including where they go to school or where they like to hang out.
  5. To help protect against spam, encourage your children not to give out their email address online (unless it's a trusted and secure site), not to respond to junk mail, and to use email filters.
  6. Make sure your children understand that the rules for responsible, ethical behavior don't change just because they're on a computer. The Internet should not be used to spread gossip, bully or threaten others.
  7. Explain that making illegal copies of other people's work, file sharing, downloading music, video games, and other programs without permission may infringe on copyright laws.
  8. Your children should never meet online friends in person. They may not be who they say they are.
  9. Remind your children that not everything they read or see online is true.
  10. Consider using parental controls to help filter out harmful content, monitor the sites your children visit, and find out what they do there.

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