Q&A: Children and safer net use
10
Feb
Online safety tips for parents
(from Child Exploitation and Online Protection center)
- Know what your children are doing online
- Get them to show you how to do things
- Help them understand not to give any personal information to online friends
- Teach them to ignore spam
- Teach them to ignore files sent by people they don’t know
- Teach them some people lie online
- Tell them to keep online friends online
- Keep talking so they know they can always tell you if something makes them feel uncomfortable
- Show children how to block people online and how to report them
Online safety tips for children:
- Don’t give your real name on gaming sites
- Best not to have anyone on your IM (instant messaging) list that you don’t know in the real world
- You can block people in IM and chat areas
- Best not to meet people you meet online, they might not be who they say they are
- Tell an adult you trust if an online friend asks to meet you
- Report a contact to CEOP if you think they might be an adult
