Provided by Internet Safety 101

• Establish an ongoing dialogue and keep lines of communication open.
   
• Supervise use of all internet-enabled devices.
   
• Know your child's online activities and friends.
   
• Regularly check your child's social networking and gaming sites, to see what information they are posting.
   
• Supervise the photos and videos your kids post and send online.
   
• Discourage the use of webcams and mobile video devices.
   
• Teach your children how to protect personal information posted online.
   
• Be sure your children use privacy settings.
   
• Instruct your children to avoid meeting face-to-face with someone they only know online or through their mobile device.
   
• Teach your children how to respond to cyberbullies.
   
• Establish an agreement with your children about internet use at home and outside of the home.

Provided by Internet Safety 101

• Set age-appropriate filters.
   
• Consider using monitoring software.
   
• Periodically check your child's online activity by viewing your browser's history.
   
• Set time limits and consider using time-limiting software.
   
• Disallow access to chat rooms and only allow live audio chat with extreme caution.
   
• Limit your child's instant messaging (IM) contacts to a parent-approved buddy list.
   
• Use safe search engines.
   
• Set up cyber-security protections.
   
• Utilize parental controls on your child's mobile phone and other mobile devices.
   
• Learn how predators groom children so you can avoid them.

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