Latter-day Saint Life

8 Tips to Ensure Your Kids' Safety Online

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Kids are social today. They want social media accounts and access to smartphones, tablets and computers. As a parent, you have two options to deal with their overpowering social craze: allow your kids some of that freedom while keeping a very watchful eye on what's happening, or restrict Internet access to them altogether. But the latter can backfire because most kids will simply use a friend's device. So let's assume you allow your kids a decent amount of access to the Internet. How can you effectively protect your kids from lurkers, predators and others that simply want to do harm online?

Here are some solid tips you can use to help keep your kids safe while online:

1. Try not to make the Internet a strange and long-awaited prize.

If your kids have zero access to the Internet before the age of 15, they may be longing for that day to arrive - and they might go crazy when it comes. While you can't let kids use the Internet alone at a very young age, introducing them to things like smartphones and tablets (through your own usage) while they are young won't make those things forbidden. As a result, you'll take away that temptation.

Lead image from Family Share.

Help protect your family with Router Limits.

Deseret Book recently released an exciting new product: Router Limits “Deseret Book Edition.” 

Router Limits has been helping families across America by providing safer internet to homes and by helping parents and children better manage the time they sit in front of a screen. The new “Deseret Book Edition” is geared specifically toward LDS families and provides special filters and categories that Latter-day Saint families care about.

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