3 Tips for Family Cyber Safety

With all the Internet scams, security issues, and cyber attacks that occur these days, every parent is doing everything in their power to protect their little ones from cyber space. You can limit pages, monitor their searching, and block websites, but sometimes even that doesn’t cut it. Here are three more safety tips for parents dealing the cyber safety:

1. Set an Age Limit and Stick to It

We see kids as young as 7 years old creating their own Facebook profiles pages – this is very unnecessary. At that young age, kids don’t realize that what they do online will be there forever. So it’s the parents’ job to step in and set a limit. A good age to allow your child to create a Facebook profile is 14 years of age. Some parents even say that this age is too young, but if you restrict them too much, it could backlash. So age 14 is a decent age, and you can still monitor what they do.

2. Cut Off Time

Many parents don’t know this, but you can actually set it up so that your Internet literally turns off at a certain time each night and doesn’t turn back on until the morning. Private Investigator Connecticut is a great tool and if you aren’t familiar on how to use it, contact your Internet provider and they can probably walk you through the process. Studies have actually shown that later hours of night is when many kids “sneak” online without their parents knowing, so by creating a cut off time, this restricts them. Also, make sure there are no neighbor networks that your kids can connect to once your Internet is turned off.

3. Talk With Your Kids

Sometimes using case studies to show your kids how dangerous the internet can be is great. For example, showing your teenage daughter some case studies of other teenagers who posted inappropriate pictures online and the consequences they had to face because of it can be enough to show them what they should be doing and what they should not do. Some people think Private Investigator Connecticut is over the top, but I’ve seen it work in so many situations that I’m a firm believer in it. The fact is that it’s the truth – our kids can make mistakes online sometimes and they don’t know what they are getting into because they don’t know what consequences they’ll face – by showing them real life case studies, it gives them a taste of how realistic the internet can be.

Hopefully these tips have helped you and if you have some tips that you’d like you to share with other parents, please feel free to post!