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More Family Online Safety Practices <br />• Know the protection features of the ISPs (Internet service provider) and software your <br />children use. All major ISPs have tools to help you manage young children's online <br />experience (e.g., selecting approved websites, monitoring the amount of time they spend <br />online, or limiting the people who can contact them) and may have other security features. <br />But remember that your home isn't the only place they can go online. <br />• Remain positively engaged. Pay attention to and know the online environments your <br />children use. Surf the Internet with them. Appreciate your children's participation in their <br />online communities and show interest in their friends. Try to react constructively when they <br />encounter inappropriate material. Make it a teachable moment. <br />• Support their good choices. Expand your children's online experience and their autonomy <br />when developmentally appropriate, as they demonstrate competence in safe and secure <br />online behavior and good decision - making. <br />• Teach critical thinking. Help your children identify safe, credible websites and applications. <br />Encourage them to be cautious about clicking on, downloading, posting, and uploading <br />content. <br />• Explain the implications. Help your children understand the public nature of the Internet <br />and its risks as well as benefits. Be sure they know that any digital info they share, such as <br />emails, photos, or videos, can easily be copied and pasted elsewhere, and is almost <br />impossible to take back. Things that could damage their reputation, friendships, or future <br />prospects should not be shared electronically. <br />Just saying "no" rarely works. Teach your children how to interact safely with people they <br />"meet" online. Though it's preferable they make no in- person contact with online -only <br />acquaintances, young people may not always follow this rule. So talk about maximizing safe <br />conditions: meeting only in well -lit public places, always taking at least one friend, and <br />telling a trusted adult about any plans they make — including the time, place, and <br />acquaintance's contact information (at least a name and cell phone number). <br />• Empower your children to handle problems, such as bullying, unwanted contact, or hurtful <br />comments. Work with them on strategies for when problems arise, such as talking to a <br />trusted adult, not retaliating, blocking the person, or filing a complaint. Agree on steps to <br />take if the strategy fails. <br />�LRSECURITY StaySafefnline.org <br />ALLIANCE Attachment number 2 <br />C -4 Page 38 <br />