4 easy ways to keep your kids safer when they’re online
Parents are well aware that their kids are at risk when using the internet, but many moms and dads take aren’t taking necessary steps to ensure their safety, according to new information published in the 2017 Norton Cyber Security Insights Report.
The survey of more than 20,000 people in 20 countries, half of whom identified themselves as parents, found that 96 percent of moms and dads worry about their children’s safety online. (Sound familiar") A third say that either their kids or the children of someone they know have been bullied via online channels. Yet only a third of parents make an effort to constantly supervise their kids’ online activities, including playing games, using social media and surfing the web. Even more troublesome, more than one in ten (11 percent) admit to making no effort to protect their kids online. The good news is that 77 percent of parents say they monitor and control the content their kids access online. Here are four ways parents can do so.
1. Tech tools
Plenty of technological tools are available to parents, including Norton’s own Norton Family Premier suite, which lets moms and dads monitor how their kids are exploring the web and regulate what they can see and how much time they can spend engaging in specific online activities. A companion mobile app lets them keep tabs on what their kids are doing in real time even when they’re not around. Other options, such as Net Nanny and Qustodio, are useful for fi...
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