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E – Safety Taking care of your child online

How we use these technologies

Parents / Carers

• e-mail
• Shopping
• Booking trips
• Research

Young people

• M usic
• Games
• Chat
• Instant M essaging IM
• Blogs
• Social Networking

Websites

• Which sites do your children use online?

The online world

• Children are natives in the online world, most are

unaware of life without: – Iphones – Games consoles – Google – Emails – Facebook

• They feel confident using new sites and technologies,

moving from site to site with ease.

Camera phones Text messages MP3 player Mobile TV e-mail Downloads Internet access

Anytime  Anywhere

Chat and IM

M obile Phones / Tablets

Learning Online?

M oney management

Research

Communication skills

Confidence

Commitment

Computer skills Creativity

• We’re now going to take a closer look at how

Facebook works.

• Y
• ur child may not have Facebook profile now,

but chances are they will have before you know it.

• Unwittingly sharing personal information
• Unwanted contact/grooming
• Overusage – e.g.always checking FB account
• Cyberbullying
• Privacy/ digital footprints

Internet and FB Risks

M anaging Risks

www.courthousegreen.org

Gaming

Half of children aged 8 to 15 own a games console, while a further third use one in the household.

Gaming Tips

• Leave all gaming devices in a family space
• Talk to your child about the sites they are using
• Explain that people lie online and they are not always who they say they are
• Explain that people can be mean online
• Ask them to never give out personal information
• Set parental controls
• Set time limits on how long they can game for. Allow time for non-technology

based activities before bed

Buying a mobile - Tips

• Is my child old enough to have a mobile phone? Set boundaries
• M any parents allow their children to have a mobile when it is needed, i.e.

leaving the house alone/ starting secondary school.

• Before buying your child a mobile, find out what functions it has:
• Internet, private messaging, built in applications
• Set parental controls where required
• Talk to the service provider
• Set mobile rules:
• E.g. No mobile phone in the bedroom at night (you could charge them in yours
• vernight), mobile free time before bed.

Parental Controls

• As a minimum, please set parental controls on your search engines,

youtube account and the mobile phone your child uses.

• One of the most popular search engines in the world is Google. Y
• u can

visit Google’s informative safety centre for simple step by step guides - www.google.com/ familysafety/ tools

• Here are a few options available to you:
• Visit the Google home page – www.google.co.uk and click on the ‘search

setting’ tab in the top right hand corner.

Simple steps to protection: A Checklist

• I have asked my child to show me sites they use
• I have asked my child to set the security settings on all the

technologies they use

• I have asked my child to only accept people they know and trust

in the real world as online “Friends”

• I have set safe settings on our computer/ laptop and set adult

content filters on my/ my child’s smart phone

• M y child has agreed to tell me if they are worried about

something online