Wednesday, March 25, 2020

What parents are supposed to do to ensure internet safety for their kids?

5- Do not post rude, embarrassing photos of you or your family.
6- Do not post videos of you or your family or anyone where they are being rude to someone.
7- Never arrange a meeting with someone you have meet or communicated online.
8- Do not download files from an email unless you know it that where it came from and who has sent it to you.
9- Do not download files from the websites you have no knowledge about them or ask the parents if they are safe or not. Mostly websites with https:// are secure but you still need to confirm with your parents.
10- If you have to create a user name on a site, never use your real name as user name.
11- Do not share the videos or audios or anything which has a copyright. Unless you mention the source you got it from.
12- Don’t believe everything you read online as that information may be false or incorrect and don’t take an action at once while reading that information.

What parents are supposed to do to ensure internet safety for their kids?

1- Always keep the screen learn quran online outwards and at places where you can keep an eye on it frequently, near to kitchen or in common sitting place.
2- Set some family rules on using computers, laptops, mobile phones etc.
3- Inform the kids that you will monitor the messages, emails and calls online to keep them safe and sound from un-know threat. And do it occasionally as well.
4- Share the daily stories of unsafe internet use happened in our daily life because of less care and monitoring.
5- If a meeting is necessary with an online person, guide the kids to take an adult with you, arrange meeting at a public place, and don’t take valuables with you.
6- If you are learning online, make sure you are learning with a registered institute, which is paying tax as well.
7- Female of daughters should get a female teacher while learning online whether it is the Holy Quran or any other course.
8- Sending money to individuals is not more secure unless you know someone personally.
9- Sending money to individuals who are not paying tax or you have no authentic information about their identity can lead to a trouble.
10- Reinforce the family rules that parents monitor all the online activities of the kids and teenagers for the safeguard.
11- If teens confide in you about something inappropriate or scary that they have encountered online, your first response should not be to take away Internet rights form them. Try to be positive and supportive and work with them to help prevent happening it again in the future.
12- Kids and teens have more access to the internet via other family members or friend’s home. Remind the kids that everybody have the same threat for you and is a guard for you against such threats.
13- Keep Anit-virus and spam protector up-to-date all the times.
With these mentioned precautions and measures, it is possible to get more benefits from the internet and avoid more risk attached to it. Parents are responsible not to leave the kids in the hands of devil or evil. So must be vigilant about your kids that what they do, where they go and with whom they spend most of their time. It is better to be safe then in trouble because of being over-confident on your kids and teens. And we wish you and your family a safe and prosperous life.

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