Cyber Safety Guide for Parents with Router Protection

 With the current pandemic situations, schools and colleges have been forced to take the assistance of the virtual medium, the internet, to continue with regular studies. Added to this, this use of gadgets and internet services have also opened the door to cybercrime.

As technology is evolving and so are the risks, we have put together a few cyber safety tips for you as parents to save your children to fall in the traps of cybercriminals.
    
1. Monitor your Child’s online activity
Place your child’s laptop or PC in the common room. With this, you can keep track of your child’s online activities. Added to it, your child will also be aware of you keeping tabs on them and will prohibit the temptation of visiting any prohibited websites.

You can also bring home the latest router kid control system or parental control router, which will act as an extra layer of safety. In this way, you can keep track of your child’s online activities via their devices.

2. Right Age to allow Handling Social Media
Nowadays, children as young as 12 – 13 years are active on social media. Children within the age range 9 and 16 beckons cyber criminals and cyber bullies. Moreover, they become mature earlier and become the audience to inappropriate content.

It is best if you can supervise their account credentials to prevent them to get influenced and posting questionable content or answer to suspicious messages. Apart from directing them to kid-friendly social media websites, you can activate parental control router protection as an added security measure.

3. Know the Right Screen Time
Not just adults, children too can never keep track of time when they are online. Chatting with friends, watching YouTube videos, or playing online games is bound to eat up a lot of their time. So, set up suitable screen time, probably 2 hours a day, so that they do not feel caged or look for other ways to access the internet without your permission.

Conclusion
We have also been children and interference from parents is bound to raise the rebellious side. So, we advise you to have small chats with your children and teach them the importance and benefits of cyber safety.