Secure Your Kids' Digital Adventures: Smartphone Safety Guide

"Secure Your Kids' Digital Adventures: Smartphone Safety Guide"

Introduction: Everyone uses the internet more and more these days. In this digital age, everyone uses smartphones, computers, laptops, tablets, and smart TVs to access the internet. Kids are also gradually becoming more invested in this, and the cause is either parents who are busy and want to engage their child by giving them gadgets, or online classes and online homework where it is difficult to track whether they are studying or engaging in other online activities.

In today's time children are spending more and more of their time in the internet world, which should be beneficial for them but at the same time proving to be harmful too. Most parents do not know how to restrict the use of the internet or block unwanted content on the web for their child. So, while using the internet most of the kids access the websites, they should not have access to.

There are many reasons which are causing mental side effects on children. That is why monitoring the internet activity of children has become very important. So, come today, let us tell you some internet security tips for your children, using which you can keep your children safe in the world of Digital Adventures.
 

1. Set up Parental Control App on Your Smartphone:

At present, the smartphone has become an important part of the daily routine of every person in the world. Due to this, children are also using smartphones more in the field of entertainment. In such a situation, parents can control internet access on their smartphones for the safety of their children. Parental control comes inbuilt into Android OS, which we are telling you to do with the help of some points here –

• First, create a separate ID account for the child on the smartphone.
• After creating the ID account, follow the steps on the screen.
• After account creation, check or uncheck one of the options that you want or do not want for your child by following the steps on the screen.
• Now here you must choose several options to access the internet.
• After this open the new account of the child created by you in which you Want to access the Parenting Control app.
• Access the Parenting Controls option here by opening the Play 
• Store and tap on Settings.
• Do it.
• Now turn on the Parenting Controls switch and enter the new PIN.
• Now choose such content in it, whose access is right for your children.

In this way, with the help of a parenting control app, you can control internet access on your child and keep an eye on their work.
 

2. Monitoring Online Activities:

To keep their children safe in the world of the internet, it is most important that parents should monitor the online work done by their children. One must keep taking information about the online work that the child is doing. Along with this, the characteristics and reasons for the work done by the child should be known. Apart from this, give children opportunities to establish clear rules regarding the use of smartphones and at the same time encourage the child to read and write physically.
 

3. Set Online Work Timings and Limits:

Parents can also keep children safe in the digital world by setting limits on the availability of their child's smartphones. It will be a strict rule for the kids to do the online work within the time limit. This ensures that the time spent online allows the child no time to pay attention to other reactions on the Internet. Such as the time the child spends on homework each day and determining the onscreen time of the child keeping in mind the data.
 

4. Be a Role Model for Your Kids:

Whatever the children learn from generation to generation, the child learns the same, that is, the child first of all learns more things by observing the behavior of his family and parents.

In such a situation, parents should fix the time for their own smartphones and spend maximum time with their children and family. Tell the children about the time spent with their grandparents. Be a positive role model when it comes to smartphone usage. Introduce the children to the reality of life.

Apart from these, children should also talk about such activities which do not have much importance on screen.
 

5. Give Internet Information to Children

Under parenting control, children must be given complete information about the Internet facility before working on the smartphone, that is, explain in detail the harmful effects of the Internet. For this, you can also take the help of any videos of "Safety Rules for the Internet" to your children. You tell them not to share your personal information with any unknown person on the internet or open any other unsafe website. When children are fully aware of the harmful side effects of the Internet, they themselves will try to use the Internet carefully.

Keep taking information related to the online work of children from time to time so that they know that their parents can monitor their online work. Apart from this, if the parents want, they can keep the children safe on the smartphone by applying parental block for inappropriate websites for children on the Internet.

What are the Creative Activities to Keep Kids Away from Smartphone

3 Creative Activities to Secure Kids from Smartphones:

Keeping today's kids away from smartphones has become a big challenge for parents. It is believed that while smartphones are beneficial for children, they are also harmful as well, that is, it affects the mental development and physical development of children. In such a situation, today we will tell you about some very exciting activities for our children apart from smartphones, through which the use of devices like smartphones/tablets in children will decrease:
 

1. Picnic 

The thing that excites all of us the most, let alone children, is nature, which is very helpful for our healthy life. But in the present time, every person's smartphone has taken more time, which is also having harmful effects on all of us. In such a situation, we need to get our children away from smartphone addiction and spend time with natural beauty, that is, take children for a walk and tell them some natural things that will increase their encouragement towards nature.

Apart from this, identify the activities in children that capture their imagination and encourage the child accordingly.

By doing this, the child's attention starts diverting from the smartphone and their sense of adventure towards nature increases, and it also helps the child to play a physically active role.
 

2. Play Games

Talking according to age, children are always ready to have fun and entertainment. In such a situation, mobile has controlled the fun of today's children, that is, children are addicted to mobile, due to which they sit in one place and watch cartoons or play video games, in such a situation, physical side effects are also increasing on them.

The best way for this is for parents to take out time for their children and play physical games with them, which will encourage children's physical development with pleasure.

Apart from this, sitting with the children, you can play any interactive and attractive board game, or the same card game as before. This method will also promote family bonding as well as create a screen-free environment at home. So that there is face-to-face conversation and entertainment between all the family members and many such reactions which children are very happy to see. By doing this, children will stay at home and wait for their parents so that they can get companions for fun. So, in this way children can also be saved from smartphone addiction.
 

3. Music and Playing Instruments:

Singing and listening to music is a very relaxing exercise for people of all ages. In such a situation, if we talk about children, it is very good to sing music or play instruments for them.

Under this type of activity, the children will not only enjoy themselves but also the labor power of the children will increase and they will get a mental stress-free routine. Playing instruments and singing music will contribute to skill development in children and will keep them busy away from smartphones to complete such activities.

So, in this way, singing activities will also give children an opportunity for entertainment and children will be able to stay away from mobile i.e., smartphones.