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How to Create a Safe Internet for Children?

 

Both individuals and institutions play a major role in creating a safe internet environment for children. Here are the main steps that can be taken to ensure a safe internet environment.

 

Parents should first be made aware of safe internet use.

Awareness-raising education on informatics should be given in schools for primary school children.

Awareness-raising activities involving parents should be established and carried out in schools.

Non-Governmental Organizations should take responsibility in this regard and produce new and effective projects on conscious internet use.

Universities should similarly develop projects and prepare seminars.

Of course, many more items can be counted for the formation of a secure internet. In addition to all these, the most basic way to create a safe internet environment for children is a healthy parent-child relationship. While the Internet is such an indispensable part of children's lives, the primary role in raising their awareness falls on the family. You can teach children how to use the internet by talking to them. You can remind them of the basic rules such as not clicking on links they do not know, not communicating with people they do not know. You can chat frequently about safe internet use, and you can take some technically complementary measures. Since the internet can be accessed through different devices today, you can apply to family filter software that has functions such as encryption and blocking harmful sites over the devices your children use. Thus, you will prevent your child from encountering potentially harmful content.