While trying to keep your children safe online there are some seemingly simple steps you can implement – one of these being turning on Google Safe Search. Google Safe Search is a great tool that helps to filter out inappropriate content like pornography when children are looking at search results or images.
We were all taught from a young age about stranger danger in real life – e.g. don’t accept sweets from strangers, scream if someone you don’t know tries to grab you, etc.
Knowing who your child is talking to online can be difficult, especially when you don’t want to invade their privacy. However, with growing numbers of predators using social media and online gaming to meet children, it’s naturally a concern for many parents, carers and teachers that children in their care are at risk of being groomed.
Whether we like it or not our children are born in to a 24-hour digital world. Most of us with young children were born in to a world dominated by conventional media, the likes of TV and Radio. We were introduced to the internet when we were at an age that we could tell the good from the bad.
There are a number of ways to ensure our kids stay safe online whilst exploring and discovering new things that the internet has to offer. Here we discuss some of these features and tools.
Last year a survey of teachers labelled the worsening crisis of mental health amongst schoolchildren as an “epidemic”. NHS figures published in May 2018, stated that almost 400,000 children and young people a year in England are being treated for mental health problems, the highest number ever!
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