Exploring Internet Safety with Your Child

While the internet is a wondrous place with no limits to what you can explore, it can also be a stressful and harmful environment. There are many risks associated with the internet and what it can bring to users, both adults and as children. 

Your child will eventually be using the internet on a regular basis, which is why you should teach them about the importance of being safe online.

This independent school in London explores the ways you can browse the internet safely with your child and give them the tools to know what to do if they feel at risk.

How to keep children safe online?

From the moment I found out I was pregnant I felt unconditional love for my children and a determination to give them a fantastic childhood. Being a parent means I do my utmost to care for and protect them. To give them a happy, stable and hopefully healthy life.

An underlying emotion connected to being a parent is worry. Worry that I am doing my best for them. Worry that they are happy. Worry that they are healthy. Worry that they will not come to harm. Worry that I can protect them from the bad of the world.

There is a lot to worry about when raising children.

Internet safety for children.

After writing about my online habits I started thinking about how technology has changed over the years and how the internet, social media and the technology we take for granted now was only a mere futuristic idea 20 to 30 years ago whilst now in 2013 it is an integral part of most people’s lives.

With technology, computers, the internet and social media being a fundamental part of most people’s lives across the country our way of life has slowly changed over the years with the use of technology becoming intertwined in our daily life.  Even though pastimes such as reading books,  printing photographs and keeping them in albums, buying cassette tapes and then CD’S, shopping exclusively on the high street, playing board games and writing handwritten letters have not completely disappeared from our lives with technology being so prominent and weaved into our daily lives such pastimes have had a technological twist.  Google books and kindles are becoming increasingly popular as an alternative to books, classic cameras using photographic film have been replaced with digital cameras and photographs are shared online rather than printed off and cherished in photograph albums, music is digitally downloaded instead of bought as CD’s, online shopping is becoming commonplace as an alternative to shopping on the highstreet, technology has puts its spin on games with gaming consoles and handled gaming devices being very popular with both young and old and handwritten letters with their personal and romantic touch are being overshadowed by emails, digital conversations, texts, mobile phone conversations and social media.

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