Helping your family have a safer online experience
As parents when our children sign up for clubs and activities in the real world we can easily check age suitability, in the digital world children can create a digital age to help them gain access to clubs and activities online that may not be age appropriate and can open very real world risks for … Read More “Social Media – Why you need to check your child’s age on their accounts.” »
Several years ago, while Jim Gamble was the head of CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) I remember listening to him speak and explaining that child pornography is not the language that should be used to describe sexual images of children, it is Child Abuse, this statement has stayed with me. Pornography is a … Read More “Its Child Abuse not Child Pornography.” »
In our house we don’t keep secrets, just surprises. One of the most powerful weapons child abusers have is to get children to keep secrets. They often start with small secrets to see if the child keeps these and then the predator will slowly progress onto darker secrets after earning the families and child’s trust. … Read More “No Secrets…Just Surprises !” »
You may have heard the terms Deep Web and Dark Web and be wondering what they refer to so this short guide explains the difference between the two. The Deep Web and the Dark Web are sometimes mistakenly used to refer to the same thing however they are separate entities. Both the Deep Web and … Read More “Deep Web vs Dark Web – A Parents Guide” »
Parental Control software allows parents to, amongst other things, govern what their family can access online, what apps they can download and the amount of time that their family can spend on the internet and while no software is fool proof, using parental control software can giveparents another layer of protection and the tools they … Read More “Parental Control!! NO its Parental Guidance.” »
