The lack of awareness on the existence of online scammers, cyber bullies, perverts and the like is a pressing danger to your children. Because of their innocence, our young generation are the usual victims of this evilness lurking everywhere. The only way to break the reality to young children of their presence is by gradually feeding them with the correct information.
Here are some ways on how you can incorporate your advises during your small talks with your kids.
- Ask them about the games they play online and what are the interesting things happening in their social media account. Try to sense if they are hiding secrets from you or just making up stories. Always include in your discussion the realities that bad people do exist everywhere and the internet is not a safe playground. Tell them to be on guard at all times.
- Teach your kids proper internet etiquette. This way they will know how to distinguish bad company and avoid them totally.
- Observe your child’s behavior after every internet usage. If you see sudden change of behavior something must have affected this mood swing while on the internet. Try to find out without making so much fuss. If he does not like to talk about it now, maybe later is a better time.
- Without eavesdropping, pay close attention to your children’s discussions. If there are comments that you need to look further into, try speaking to each child individually and casually to avoid tension.