Tuesday 16 July 2013

Why Parents Need to Protect their Kids Online?

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The Internet is very dangerous place for naïve and innocent children. You want your kids to be intelligent and should build their social identity and for that you allow them to access social networking sites and of course the Internet. But you should protect them from dangers on Internet. Not only at home, but try to know what your children do when they are in school, or library or if they visit internet café. You, as a parent, should be aware of what your children are doing on Internet and tell them about what kind of dangers there be online.

There are many more ways to protect your children online. You can find many relevant articles on Smart Parents Website. Here, we will discuss why parents need to protect their children on the Internet and some tips to keep your kids safe online.

Reasons to protect your children online


The place where children often visit is the social media networking sites. No every
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person 
in this world is good and will be your friend for no reason. There may be people present who can befriend with your kids to take their advantage. These social media sites allow people to hide their identity, and sometimes there are such people who pretend to be a child on internet, to fool other children. People use these social networking sites to share their emotions and some of them like your kids, are vulnerable that get attacked by the predators or strangers on the Internet, to whom your kids are talking. You must befriend your child on such sites and monitor them if they are doing any bad things or not. If your children do not agree to share their online activities with you, just tell them about the threats that are hidden behind the innocent face of any other fake child.

Also, while surfing the Internet your child may visit the sites which are bad for them. Or even while playing online games children may face the characters in games like vampires or other terrible ones that can make children’s mind upset. By watching such things, your kids may start thinking like that. There is very bad effect of such sites on your kids’ mind. So keep watch on what your kids are doing online.

You may find that, your kids often share their personal information on Internet which is very much dangerous. There may be identity theft present on the Internet who can use your identity to do things illegally. There may be sites which are ruled by the terrorists. And such site may require such innocent kids to progress their work.

Remember, the internet is not only meant for chatting with people, there are many other things that you can do on internet. All kind of information about a person or a place or any other thing is available on internet at a click of button. And people may use this information for any purpose, maybe it is bad.

Don’t just be aware, Take an Action


It is not sufficient to know about all these, you must take an action against it. To prevent your kids from online dangers, you must extend the protection on chat rooms, blogs, social networking sites and your Internet. You can change your browser’s settings that will prevent the sites to open which are not good. Also you can bookmark the sites which your kids often visit and prevent them from surfing for information.