14 Apr Is your home internet safety-proof 🤔 Do you have a Family Media Plan or Technology Agreement in place 🤨

With the advancement in technology, many families are finding themselves spending more time online and in front of mobile devices. 📱💻With schools now introducing technology to student at Kindergarten, children as young as 5 to 8 years old have been spending more time online than before.

It is important to teach your child 👧internet safety to ensure that they have good internet habits from young to protect themselves from ✋cyber bullying, inappropriate content and contact from strangers and online predators.

Here are 5 Top Tips to Reduce Internet Safety Risks for Children aged 5 to 8 years old.

1. Create a family media plan. 📝It’s best to create your plan with your child and ask her for suggestions. Your plan could cover things like screen-free areas in your house, internet safety rules like not giving out personal information, and programs and apps that are OK 👌for your child to use.

2. Use child-friendly 🧒search engines like Kiddle, or content providers like ABC Kids, CBeebies, YouTube Kids or KIDOZ. Check that games, websites and TV programs are appropriate for your child. You can do this by looking at reviews on Common Sense Media.

3. Use the internet 💻with your child or make sure you’re close by and aware of what your child is doing while he’s online. This way you can act quickly and reassure your child if he’s concerned or upset😨 by something he’s seen online.

4. Check privacy settings 🤫and location services, use parental controls, use safe search settings on browsers, apps, search engines and YouTube. Block in-app purchases and disable one-click payment options on your devices.

5. Make sure older siblings follow your internet safety rules, like watching 👀only age-appropriate programs when they go online with younger children.

Together we can keep our children safe online!

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