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Post by kidsandpets on Jul 30, 2016 21:54:31 GMT -5
My 7 yo DS has been using the internet for about 3 years now. But up until now it has only been 1-3 very specific sites that were bookmarked and easy to access (starfall, pbskids and one they use at school called coolmathgames).
Now DS is old enough that he has discovered he can explore other things by himself (he found youtube today). We talked about only going to other things if he asks first and about the bad things that can be on the internet. I think he understands the whys.
At this point, I am not concerned about him. In our house, internet access is only available on 3 desk-top computers, all of which are out in the open and monitorable. We do keep track of what they are doing. (Both kids use the internet but my 4 yo only knows how to access the marked sites I talked about above.
But my question is how do I begin to TEACH internet saftey to DS (and DD later as well)? What kinds of things can we do together that will eventually help him navigate the internet on his own safely. (NOT aiming for independence yet - just looking for ways to begin to teach him now so that eventually...)
Thoughts???
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Post by Laney on Jul 31, 2016 0:53:56 GMT -5
I'd still lock everything down as much as possible. I still haven't figure out how to teach internet safety here. We still have instances where the kids look up something completely innocent and end up with nasty search results, so beyond teaching my kids to think through anything they are going to search I'm no help. I have taught them if they end up on something bad to close it out immediately and let me know.
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Post by purpleowl on Jul 31, 2016 8:59:03 GMT -5
My oldest is 7 as well (and we're still at "you may look at this and only this on Mommy's computer"), so I don't have experience, but I think one thing to emphasize is what ads look like and that the child shouldn't click on them. From what I can tell so far, DD considers ads part of the page, so she will need explicit instruction in recognizing which part of the page is an ad that she should ignore and not click on. This would also go for pages that have popup ads either when you first get to the page or when you're halfway down or whatever--how to make those go away.
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Post by kidsandpets on Jul 31, 2016 15:32:41 GMT -5
Good thinking on the ads. The 3 sites he is allowed to use one his own don't have ads. But that would be a great thing to teach when we are looking up other things together.
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Post by lucy on Aug 6, 2016 10:57:39 GMT -5
Keep the computer in a very visible area in the house....so that everyone can see what is on the screen.
As far as security measures.....it's gets bad when the kids know more than the parents in that regard....I had folks tell me, put in passwords, ...um...my kids can reroute, and almost build a computer. I have to ask them for help...who thinks I can put a block up ?
I would do what you are doing...select a few sites....and add a few more, and then go on from there...
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Post by mamamunchkin on Aug 8, 2016 19:11:38 GMT -5
We have locked down everything... Passwords to get in, no browsers, no youtube, passwords for Internet, used only in shared space.
YouTube was the worst offender because something harmless can lead to some links that aren't quickly! It's happening so easily and so early, I was shocked when I noticed his history one day I was freaked out.
We've talked about how this is for his safety and purity.
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Post by kidsandpets on Aug 10, 2016 17:02:24 GMT -5
We have locked down everything... Passwords to get in, no browsers, no youtube, passwords for Internet, used only in shared space. YouTube was the worst offender because something harmless can lead to some links that aren't quickly! It's happening so easily and so early, I was shocked when I noticed his history one day I was freaked out. We've talked about how this is for his safety and purity. That's the kind of thing on my mind too. Up until now, anything they've ever used is totally harmless and can't lead anywhere else. As a family we've looked at things on youtube - because there is lots of fun, harmless stuff there. But there's a lot of garbage I know too on there... That's a good conversation to have next time we (together) are looking at something on youtube. I also need to look into blocking youtube (and other stuff) on the kid's computer - that way if they want it, it would have to be on ours which would add an extra level of monitoring as they would have to ask to use ours... Thank you ladies for your suggestions! Anything else that anyone thinks of, I need all the insight I can get in this new realm!  |
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