Parent Online Safety
How safe is TikTok?
Watch the video for some great safety settings for this popular app.
Limiting Screentime
Childnet International have issued the following useful advice for parents of children 0 to 7 on the subject of limiting screentime and taking time with your child to explore the digital world together.
Click the image or this link to view the advice.
(Via Childnet International)
Click here for some more tips on helping your children develop good media habits
(via Common Sense Media)
Microsoft Parental Controls
Microsoft Family is a new feature in Windows 10 and on Xbox which allows parents to have control over their children's online activity. To make use of these features your child must be using a Microsoft account under the control of your family account.
https://account.microsoft.com/family/about
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/for-everyone/responsible-gaming
Parents online safety workshop March 2019
Online Safety assembly presentation (PowerPoint file)
"YouTube Kids" A safer app for Children.
This app offers a simple child friendly interface and will only suggest educational videos. Also it features parental controls so you can limit the usage of this app and set time limits.
Some online safety facts from internetmatters.org
Top 10 Parental Cyber-Safety Tips for the Summer
Kids today effectively don’t experience days and nights. Instead, it’s time spent on the Internet and time spent on screens; that’s the new age anti-meridiem and post-meridiem for you! Summer time just opens the floodgates to babysitting by gadgets. Here’s a to-do-list of best practices for parents and caretakers to ensure that their children are safe online:
- Spell out expectations
- Be conscious of cyber-safety
- Befriend your children online
- Live life offline too
- Embrace digital parental control
- Follow up on kids' Internet usage
- Report cyberbullying
- Have conversations over difficult topics
- Encourage sports and free play
- Leverage online media