Take control of your child and the Internet

There are millions children on networking, maybe they are our children. How you manage your children use digital activity. There some tips what we can do to protect young children’s digital activities. There must be a trust and respect and an open relationship so that if your children do come across content that makes them uncomfortable, they can talk to you without being judged and that you can help them to think.

• Taking “Holds their hand” online.
Children need to have a clear understanding of the role and responsibilities of a digital, enable them to enjoy the opportunities online world and also taking responsibilities for being sensible and risk-aware.
• Do not spy on teenager’s online activity
We want to raise our children with respectful, confident, independent human beings by parenting them in the ways that enable them to have their own internal models of how to be good person.
• Take the age limit for facebook seriously
Should you allow your children to put in false date of birth just because all their friends have? Children should not be encouraged to lie about the principle. Sometimes very necessary now allowing doing something that everybody else is doing. Vice versa you have to take full responsibility as a parent and ensure your child is fully equipped to deal a social networking.
• Appropriate security and privacy setting to minimize risk
Set privacy settings and use other security measures available to enjoy social networking in safe.
• Explain the risk of online friendships
There are 2 facets to social networking, 1st interact with friends, 2nd extend your networks. Many children’s use social networking sites become seduced by having enormous friends and they competes each others. Children must understand that online is real life social network.
• Educated your child about pornography
You will need to have conversations with them about what they might see.
• Adolescent boys will look at Porn online and girls also affected
Make sure that your son does not developed unhealthy attitude to sex. Boys tend to want a look more than girls. There is danger that it will develop their own sexual behaviors. Your daughter is also affected when images of women have altered to be more sexuality and give them negative view.
• Don’t burry your head in the sand
If you find out that he/she has been watching porn at someone else house, do not hesitate to talk to parents. You would do so if your child had been doing anything inappropriate, and this is no different.

Children need to be taught how to value and respect each other; this is much bigger issue than that relating on to pornography. Safe internet surfing steps:
Easy way to monitoring your child internet activity is to place the computer at the busiest room in the house.
Dont hover over them while they surf the internet, show them trust. Address difficult topics such as pornography and talk about it with your kids.

So…Lets we try and good luck!

Life & Times Family, New Sunday Times , 6 Nov 2011