Internet Safety for Elementary School Kids Tips
The facts: Most tweens spend about 1-2 hours a day online
- 90% of tweens have used the Internet by the time they're 9 years old
- Nearly 3 out of 4 parents of kids 9 and up who use the Internet at home say they know "a lot" about what their kids are doing online
- More than 1 in 5 tweens post information about themselves online, including pictures and how old they are
See resources for this topic
Download a parent handoutSee related research
Send this page to a friend
Sign up for our newsletter
Related articles
How to Upload a Video to YouTubeTips for Protecting Personal Privacy Online
Rules of the Road for Parents in a Digital Age
Social Networks and Teen Lives
Digital Literacy and Citizenship in the 21st Century
Advice and Answers
Tips for keeping your child safe online
1 Tell your kids:
- Never share names, schools, ages, phone numbers, or addresses
- Never send pictures to strangers
- Keep passwords private (except to parents)
- Don’t open any mail from strangers
- If something mean or creepy happens, immediately get a grown-up
2 Visit only age-appropriate sites. Check out the site before your kids visit. Know what features exist – chat functions, game play, virtual worlds.
3 Search safely. Use safe search settings for young kids or filtering software to limit inappropriate exposure.
4 Avoid strangers. Tell your kids that people aren’t always who they say they are in cyberspace. If someone they don’t know talks to them (outside of controlled environments like Club Penguin), tell your kids they shouldn’t respond.
5 Be a good cyber citizen! Remind kids that an Internet playground is still a playground and they need to play nice. A good rule of thumb: If they wouldn’t do something in real life, they shouldn’t do it online. Show your kids where they can report mean behavior or unkind content.
6 Online cheating? It’s still cheating and it’s a no-no – pure and simple.
7 Keep the computer in a central place where you can see what’s going on.
8 Establish limits on the amount of time they spend online. Use a family media agreement. (Free at commonsensemedia.org)
9 View your own habits carefully. You are their role models.
10 Set clear rules beforehand. But mostly, be involved and have fun!
learn what the dangers are to these web sites listed above and how to use the site more safely at www.netsmartz411.org - they talk about stardoll, youtube, google.... and how to filter out inappropriate material.
my favorite websites are
youtube.com
stardoll.com
clubpenguin.com
google.com
my little brothers who are in prek first grade and 2nd grade like to go on websites like
youtube.com
to watch dinosaurs and nerf guns cars
google.com
to search dinosaurs cars nerf guns
and any other site that has to do with nerf guns cars and dinosaurs pretty lame right? but he alweays has a person monitoring him im in 5th grade and mature enough to handle the internet my self (im the oldest)
The concern over access to inappropriate Internet material has compelled many schools to "filter" their computers' access to the Internet. Some schools install firewalls on their computer systems; others install filtering software -- such as Bess, CyberPatrol, Surfwatch, Net Nanny, and WebSense -- on individual computers. The result is the same. Both methods check Web sites for key words and phrases that might indicate inappropriate content. On the other hand, the proxy software has proven to be a barrier to legitimate studies by students researching information that is sensitive and personal such as homosexuality or teenage pregnancy.
Read more:
http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/09/21/josies-story-adds-ang...
myspace
youtube
wetpaint
i just surf until i find something good
i'm in 6th grade