I have just pretty much recently understood that my kid is spending quite a lot of time online (laptop and ofc my smartphone!)...
I know some of you will say that it is bad, or that I even shouldnt let my kid use smartphone at all. But you know what? I think technology is good in general, and even if i wanted to hide it from my son it wouldnt be effective cause he might encounter it in kindergarten, at a friends house or etc. So my tactics were to kind of talk to him and try to educate.
Of course I needed help, im not taht much tech savvy, so I googled and googled to find tools to help me (im not able to be there to watch what my kid does on the net, watches on youtube and etc, so i needed TOOLS, actual tools to help me with a little bit more "control" :)
and actually there is super cool things such as Youtube safety mode, kids friendly internet browser Kidsplorer and etc etc! it was so helpful. I wanted to share some of these tools with you who are maybe struggling in the same area..
so these ones were really helpful,
www.internetmatters.org/advice/6-10/
vpnpro.com/blog/internet-safety-for-kids/
www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/11/how-to-keep-kids-safe-online-children-advice
Please share your stories! I would love to learn more and to know more tools that could help me to protect children online