Internet Safety:Take a guided tour
Invite your child to show you around the places she likes to visit online. Most kids love to show their parents around new places – even virtual ones!
Play a game
Ask your child to teach you an online game, and then challenge him to a match. You will be amazed by the skill you will need
to keep up with your child.
Go Searching
Conduct an online scavenger hunt (a phone of an orange cat; a recipe for chocolate chip muffins; an online metric calculator,
the distances between the sun and Earth) Use a kid-friendly search engine like OneKey (www.onekey.com) or Yahoo Kids
(www.yahookids.com)
Travel the globe
Challenge your child to find locations on a map. Younger children enjoy finding famous landmarks. Older children will enjoy
the challenge of navigating satellite images of the earth.
Watch videos together
Go on a video-sharing site and ask your child to show you clips of his favorite performing artists. You may even find that you like one another’s music!
For more tips and tools, go to www.internetsafetyweek.com
OUR INTERNET SAFETY HOUSE RULES
- Never write your address or phone number online, or give out any information that identifies you.
- Never give out your passwords, even to friends.
- Treat others with respect online, as you would in person.
- Remember that nothing you do on the Internet is private; don’t say or do anything you wouldn’t want others
to know about.
- Never open an e-mail or click on a link from someone you don’t know.
- I will get up from the computer right away and tell my parents or another trusted adult if I see something
that scares me or makes me feel uncomfortable.
- I will never post my picture or a video of myself online without permission.
- I will never lie about my age online.
- Any other rules that your family would like to add.
