Digital Safety Resources
Digital devices like phones, tablets, laptops, televisions and video game consoles have brought added convenience and entertainment to our fingertips. But they also bring new challenges to both to health and safety, especially for kids and teens. Here you'll find helpful information on how media can impact their health and wellbeing. If you have concerns about your child's digital safety you'll find great resources here to share and discuss. By keeping the dialogue open and supportive, you'll help them navigate the digital world confidently and responsibly.
Information on safe digital use
- 5 unhealthy ways digital ads may be targeting your child
- Beyond screen time: help your kids build healthy media use habits
- Constantly connected: how media use can affect your child
- Healthy habits for media use
- How media use can affect kids
- Kids and video games
- Monitoring your child's media use
- Talking to your kids about social media
- Teaching kids to be smart about social media
- Technology: 5 ways to reboot yourself
- Your child's first cell phone: are they ready?
- 5 ways to get drivers to stop texting
- Cell phone safety
- Cyberbullying
- Cyberbullying: what parents need to know
- Human trafficking
- Indicators of human trafficking
- Multiplayer games online: keeping kids safe
- Online Safety
- Online safety – kids
- Online safety – parents
- Online safety – teens
- Protecting your online identity and reputation
- Sexting: how to talk with kids about the risks
- Sexting: what parents need to know
- Sexual harassment and sexual bullying
- Social media and your child's mental health
- Teaching kids to be smart about social media
- Teaching kids to be smart about strangers
- Texting and walking
- Virtual violence: how does it affect children?
Need help finding information?
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