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Last month I received an email from a reader regarding a post about children's safety that I'd written in 2011.
Because of that post, the reader thought, correctly, that I'd be interested in an online guide created for parents to teach their children how to be safe online.
A Must Read for Parents and Teachers
In case you think this problem affects only children in the technologically-developed countries, you're wrong.
In the email I received, my reader pointed said: "Although this might be surprising to some, many children who live in third-world countries are connected to the internet, and they are subject to the same types of cyber threats as other children."
Every parent, grandparent, and teacher needs to read The Ultimate Parent Guide for Protecting Your Child On the Internet -- especially if you are a parent who has given an internet-capable device to a child.The first section is on Smartphone Safety. Drum these rules into your kids.
This guide came out in April 2018 and is free. Just as my reader said, it is an invaluable guide with each section summarized "with actionable items for the parent/teacher."
Created by vpnMentor, a website co-founded by Ariel Hochstadt, formerly Global Gmail Marketing Manager for Google, vpnMentor has the goal of offering users a "really honest, committed and helpful tool when navigating VPNs and web privacy."
(In case you don't know, a VPN is a virtual private network across a public network that enables users to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if their computing devices were directly connected to the private network.)
Takeaway Truth
In today's world, there's information just as crucial as the birds and bees talk with kids. In fact, as soon as they can work a device, it's time to have an online safety talk with them.
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