This webinar is a great tools for educating parents about online safety basics. If you\'re interested in hosting this webinar, contact me at sharoncindrich@hotmail.com.
You’ll often hear people talk about the “virtual world” or the “online world” as opposed to the “real world”. We need to get past this classification of the Internet as a world separate from real life. While there are some games that feature completely pretend and virtual worlds and characters, most of the activities we participate online are very real. Shopping, learning, communicating - they are all real activities in our real lives. It’s just htat we use the Internet to facilitate them. Helping kids understand that the Internet is the real world is one step toward helping them stay safe and apply the same behaviors they use in real life to their activities online. parents we are concerned about the same things online…
As we are in our daily lives at school, at the park, at a frined’s house or in the eighborhood. We’ve developed ways to deal with these issues in our neighborhoods and schools. We teach our children not to talk to strangers, to trust their instincts, to report bully behavior, to be tolerant and to be respectful. We encourage them to play peacefully and limit their exposure to violence. We have the skills to teach our children the same things, but apply these lessons to the online
From the moment your child begins participating online, go with them. Don’t’ limit your conversations to Internet safety - ask them what sites they like, tell them about sites you’ve heard about, ask them to help search for a recipe or family vacation destination. E-mail them. IM them. Show them that you are connected.
Explain the difference between privacy and lies.
Browsers read the language of a Website and translate into language you can understand. There are dozens of browsers but the most popular are: EI, Firefox and Safari. Keep kids safe by using parental controls on your browser. Type in a Web address for a site that you want to allow your child to visit. Although it won't display the page, Safari will ask you if you want to add this page to your child's bookmarks bar. # Step 8 Click on 'Add Web site' to set the link. # Step 9 Repeat steps 7 and 8 for other Web sites you want your child to be able to access.
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