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Keeping Kids Safe Online

The challenge of keeping our kids safe while they’re using the Internet can feel overwhelming and impossible.

You might feel like throwing your hands in the air and declaring defeat. In fact, I think many parents give up trying to supervise their kids online activities because it seems impossible.

We’re the first generation to have this huge parenting challenge. So we need to embrace new tools and learn new strategies to help protect our children.

As I explained in my earlier post, I think there are two critical ways we can reduce the risks our kids will face online.

[Tweet “The two things you, as a parent, must do to keep your kids safe online… #mSpySaferInternet”]

1. Communicate

We’ve always known talking and listening to our kids is crucial. But as kids turn into tweens and teens, that can be easier said than done.

Parents need to ask the right questions and truly listen to what kids say and what they don’t say. Watching and understanding their behaviour and body language becomes extremely important in the tween and teen years.

Stay aware and discuss what your kids are watching and reading online and which sites and apps they are using.

2. Monitor

The fact is you can’t rely only on what your kids tell you they’re seeing online.

They need you there with them. They need you to see what’s going on so that you can use your experience and judgement to alert them when danger lurks.

Monitoring their online activity helps keep them safe.

I recommend you talk to your kids about online safety and explain why you’re putting monitoring software on their devices.

If you pay for their phone and computer, you can say that the terms of their use include monitoring software.

There is no privacy online.

Your kids will likely say you are invading their privacy. But you can tell them, you’re not invading their privacy because their is no real privacy for digital data.

[Tweet “Warn your kids nothing they type or photograph or video is ever truly private. #mSpySaferInternet”]

Any email, text message, photo or video can (and likely will) get passed on to someone other than who they intended to see it.

You are the least of their worries. If they feel something is embarrassing for you to see, then the risk of someone else seeing it should be just as — if not more — embarrassing.

Kids need to understand that the same way employees have their emails and web history tracked while they are on their employer’s computers, their use will be tracked while they’re on your computers.

Remind them that you are trying to keep them safe.

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Written by Susan Carraretto, co-founder of 5 Minutes for Mom
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  209. There are many concerns, but mostly things like snapchat or not being able to see what they are viewing. Also the pop up ads are quite concerning or mistyping things and going to bad sites.

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  210. Mine are 6,7 & 13. They can only be online in the living room but I still worry that they can get into a bad site when I am busy and not paying attention to what they are doing, I try to be around but things come up that pull my attention away from what they are doing. Scary!

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  214. I don’t know what they are doing at all times. They need some privacy but hopefully not enough to get into trouble.

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  215. Monitoring what they are looking up when I’m not around or asleep and also what they are exposed to on social network.

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  218. I think the internet can be very dangerous for kids, especially if they get on social networks & get into chat rooms with the wrong people!!

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  220. When my son was younger, our big challenge was the unknown. There were no smartphones and the internet was just taking off. When we gave our son his first phone, the only way to keep tabs was to have all his calls and texts go to my phone, then, I could have discussions with him. When he was around 13, he did get his own computer, with the understanding that we had all his passwords and we had software that monitored things he did. With technology being so new, we had to play it by ear and keep up with all that came with it. 🙂

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  221. My 11 year old does a lot of online gaming. My biggest challenge is knowing exactly who he is talking to and playing these games with. At this point in time, he has to play wthin earshot of an adult. He does have a cell phone but only for Wifi use at this age. I am concerned about inappropriate texting and communication as he grows older. @KBentonDeLauder

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  222. I don’t have kids. But, I would say the biggest problem is trying to teach kids that you just don’t talk to anyone online. Just because someone says they’re a certain person, doesn’t really mean that’s who they are.

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  226. Trying to get through to my 8 year old son the dangers of giving out personal information like his password is my biggest challenge.

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  229. The biggest challenge is keeping them on appropriate sites and not wandering through random sites. I need to keep their attention focused only on the sites they need. They don’t use the internet for pleasure only for educational purposes.

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  230. My biggest challenge when trying to keep kids safe online would be meeting strangers and inappropriate material with pop ups!

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  232. I biggest challenge is to effectively monitor their online activities without making them feel that they are being watched.

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  235. I’m concerned about adults posing as teens and cyber bullying for when my grandson who is almost 2 starts going online. Although he already has an understanding of how to start a video on my smartphone. Currently it is easy to talk to him about what he’s doing online due to his young age. : )

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  236. As of right now, I have no worries. The only time they get on the internet is when they are on either ps4 or the xbox and its right infront of me. They always ask, for me to check someone out before adding them on any social media. I am sure there are a few things I can learn though.

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  238. My biggest challenge keeping my boys safe online is that the NET is such a big place thats filled with so many different things. If they hear something at school and are not sure about what it is… all they have to do is Google it or look it up on Youtube other various sites. Its not like when I was a child and I would go to my mom with questions about things I am curious about. I fear as they get older that they will look at things they shouldnt or read about things I dont feel that they are ready to learn yet.

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  243. My biggest challenge is making sure they are safe 100% of the time. I am always worried they may click a bad , not safe link if I’m not watching.

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  244. We try our best to keep our kids off of the internet unless they are 100% supervised since they are only 3, 6 and 8. But at school, it scares me, because I can’t monitor what they do.

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  247. My biggest challenge is making sure they don’t wander on to unsafe or inappropriate sites. I also worry about strangers and the danger associated with them!

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  248. i am worried about cyber bullying that can harm my children from people they know. Typically, this means cyberbullying, the single most common online harm any child will experience. Statistics vary, but at least 20 percent of kids will receive harassing, hateful, or insulting messages via social networks, emails, instant messages, videos, and texts. so all this really freaks me out.

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  249. It’s hard to be aware at all times what kids are doing online. I think we all do whatever we can to monitor and keep them safe as well as educating them about safe practices.

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  254. Over the years I have worried about my three daughters using the internet. I’ve kept an open line of communication with them, so they have always told me if something didn’t seem right and knew not to give out personal information on-line. But, kids will be kids and they sometimes forget. I worry that personal information will get out.

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  256. the biggest challenge when trying to keep kids safe online is making sure they don’t download viruses and release sensitive/private information

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  263. The biggest challenge is giving them some of their privacy while still checking up on them without making them feel like I am always in their hair.

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  265. Right now, my son is young enough not to browse on his own, but he often clicks adds and other videos on YouTube.

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  266. They seem to have more knowledge of the Internet than most adults do any I find it scary knowing what troubles that can happen via the Internet.

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  267. I am always worried that they will go to a website with adult content with pictures that should not be shown to kids.

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  269. My children are too young to be on the internet at the moment. They do have kindles that I have set up where they only have access to educational apps and books.

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  270. My biggest challenges are things that they like such as youtube and other video websites, it is hard to block what is and is not good on that site.

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  271. She uses three different devices to access information, contact others etc, and we are very afraid some data may be fraudulent and cause her harm in some way

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  276. The hardest thing is the internet – you can learn how to do anything just by doing a simple search.
    And that includes how to get around blocks and any kind of software.
    I think it’s pretty much impossible – you just have to teach your kids right from wrong and keep a close watch on them.
    thanks!

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  280. Biggest challenge is when they visit a hacked site and the site takes them somewhere else that they should not be

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  288. I think the internet can be a very dangerous place for a kid if not monitored closely. Making sure they are not talking to someone they don’t know or clicking on links they shouldn’t.

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  289. When my kids are playing online games and I’m concerned who they are actually playing online with. I keep the computer in our family room and watch them very closely.

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  291. Right now my kids are young enough that they don’t use anything internet without supervision. But even youtube kids videos leave a lot to be desired when stuff comes up in the sidebar that they want to watch. You have to be really careful.

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