Most modern children literally from early infancy are immersed in a rich information environment. Television, radio, Internet – all these are inexhaustible sources of completely different information, which not all can be useful. For an adult, the habit of filtering the information he needs, discarding all the superfluous, has long been formed and absolutely natural. For a child who does not yet have critical thinking and is inclined to trust everything that he hears and sees, uncontrolled information can be dangerous.
Today, very many children can connect without any difficulty to connect thanks to a broad -up connection and simplicity of the very procedure itself. On many computers, access to the network is generally automatically made when loading the operating system. Therefore, a three -year -old child will be able to get on the Internet today, not to mention a little older. But the virtual environment, like real life, contains many dangers that a small person may encounter, taking his first steps in it.
First of all, this is of course all kinds of undesirable information, absolutely not intended for the child and capable of injuring the act of his psyche. Secondly, these are a variety of viruses and malicious programs. Children are fond of creatures, they want to try everything new on their own that attracts attention. Therefore, it is often very difficult for a child to refrain from downloading various toys, new programs, videos and audio files. By virtue of children’s gullibility, it is much easier to convince the child to open this or that file, report his personal data, draw into the conversation. How to protect your baby from the dangers of the network, without depriving the useful information and skills of finding the necessary information?
First of all, as in many other areas of life, this is training and enlightenment. Children need to talk about the features and dangers of virtual life, show how to handle programs and network services. It is very important from the very first days of the child’s stay on the Internet to explain to him the need to keep real personal data secretly and never use it for registration.
It is important to convey to the baby the idea that the network, just as in the surrounding life, cannot be trusted by strangers, you cannot talk about your address, school, favorite places of walks, you can not talk about the place of work of the parents. It is necessary to teach the child to be extremely careful with any SMS services or purchases with parents disagreed with parents. If you show patience and sequence, then such a training approach can bring very good fruits and protect your child from many troubles on the network.
However, it is still difficult to rely on the sanity and caution of the child. Children tend to get too carried away to all unusual and succumb to bright temptations. Therefore, various programs can come to the aid of parents that can control the child’s stay on the Internet. One of these programs is the well -known Kidscontrol today. Using this program, you can establish a restriction of access to network resources in various categories: in adult sites, Internet casinos and online games, undesirable forums. It is very simple to do this, just choose a certain category from the proposed list or manually set a restriction using a black list.
Also, the program allows you to set a limited Internet access time on certain days and hours. It is important that the work of the program is outwardly invisible and when referring to the prohibited site, the browser will display a simple message about the domain not found. Thus, if you yourself do not inform the child about the restriction of his access, he himself will not recognize this.