Leading Our Children to a Safer Internet - Anoop

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School-aged children enjoy using the internet to watch videos, play games and communicate with friends and family. They could be using the internet for schoolwork and homework as well. But because school children are becoming more independent online and may go online unsupervised, they face more internet safety risks than younger children.

Here's what Anoop Bishnoi, Chairman of The Doon School, Dehradun, suggests we can do to teach kids how to be safe online. He said, “Inform your children that digital devices require special consideration. One approach is to make it a must that kids should always ask before going online or using a device, just as they would before walking over to a neighbor's house. A simple step like this can make a child aware of what they're doing; Create a schedule so that kids use their devices during times when you can provide the most oversight. One thing that many children don't realize about the online world is that it isn't private — that anything that happens online can live on forever and be seen by anyone, anywhere. Talk to your children about privacy — or lack thereof.”

It's critical that when we share tools with children, we expect them to do unexpected things as well as things that are developmentally appropriate for them. Kids will be kids, even when they are online, they will interact with digital media in ways that make no sense to us and that’s fine as long as they’re safe and courteous.



Location: India

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