Kaspersky Lab Back to School Safely

Kaspersky Lab: The end of the summer holidays approaching, signaling the start of the new school year. Soon the kids will leave the beaches to come back in front of their computers and start using again tools like tablet and smartphone in order to prepare their work. In fact, apart from a wide variety of useful educational materials, children can easily meet and unwanted content on the Internet, such as pornography, violence, and websites that focus on drug use and even suicide.

For this reason, parents need to pay particular attention to the online activity of their children. The Kaspersky Lab specialists advise parents who want to protect their children in cyberspace:

Limit the Children Time on Internet

Children are good to spend some time on the internet, searching educational information, playing games or even talking to their friends on Facebook. However, everyone will agree that most children probably spend too many hours online. This requires parents to adopt strict rules on the time children spend in front of a computer. Before setting these new standards, parents should be careful to make a frank discussion with their child, explaining why these limits are important. Otherwise, it can be seen as an arbitrary punishment, creating problems in the relationship of parents with their children.

Check the contents 

It is important to explain to children what they can and can not do on the internet and set clear rules. As children grow older, these rules should be reviewed. To ensure that children respect the rules you set, we recommend that you use the Parental Control offers Kaspersky Internet Security - Multi-Device, allowing parents restrict the time that children use the Internet, to prevent access to inappropriate websites and games and to prevent the disclosure of personal data to third parties. The websites and games are divided into categories according to their content and the age of the children. Also, parents can easily see detailed reports record all online activities of their children.

Advise your children 

Talking with children about the new rules, it is good for parents to share some tips with them. In this way, they will help their children to be protected against online threats while showing them that trust.

• Do not disclose publicly or to foreign intelligence, such as the address, location, your school, etc..
• Do not accept invitations to meet anyone you do not know.
• Do not give anyone your phone or email and you do not post this information on your pages to social media.
• Do not open links from strangers.
• Do not trust any kind of seductive messages - free offers, discounts, or increase the reputation of likes on a carrier etc. Just delete these messages and do not open any of the link it contains.

If anything happens that makes you feel uncomfortable or if you start receiving messages from third parties that worry you, tell your parents and ask for their help to troubleshoot the problem.

Try to locate a key problem

Parents should remember that children remain connected to the Internet even when you close the computer, using tablets, smartphones and other devices. If children immediately start looking for another gadget just find that the computer is not available, parents must ensure that these devices are protected against digital threats. See why your kids prefer the digital world rather than meet their friends in real life.

This lack of social opportunities or the need for more physical activity? In each case, the parents have to focus their attention on activities for the whole family not related to computers to ensure that their children enjoy a healthy and balanced life.