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Cyber Security Awareness for Parents
Cyber Security Awareness for Parents
Cyber Security Awareness for Parents
* Average child gets a cellphone around 10 years of age
* 20% have received content from someone else that makes them uncomfortable
* 55% of children have shared something sensitive (image, info., etc.) online with a stranger
* 15% have sent a sexual image to someone they only know online and have never met in person
* 70% have sent a sexual image to boyfriend/girlfriend
* 39% had a sexual image shared with unintended recipients
* 12-17 years of age is the biggest consumer of internet pornography
* 43% of children would change their behavior if they knew parent was monitoring
www.guardchild.com
Online Sexual Predators will:
* Prey on teen’s desire for romance, adventure, and sexual information
* Develop trust and secrecy: manipulate child by listening to and sympathizing with child’s problems and insecurities
* Affirm feelings and choices of child
* Exploit natural sexual curiosities of child
* Ease inhibitions by gradually introducing sex into conversations or exposing them to pornography
* Flatter and compliment the child excessively, sends gifts, and invests time, money, and energy to groom child
* Develop an online relationship that is romantic, controlling, and upon which the child becomes dependent
* Drive a wedge between the child and his or her parents and friends
* Make promises of an exciting, stress-free life, tailored to the youth’s desire
* Make threats, and often will use child pornography featuring their victims to blackmail them into silence
Warning signs:
* Becomes secretive about online activities
* Becomes obsessive about being online
* Gets angry when he or she can’t get online
* Receives phone calls from people you do not know or makes calls to numbers that you do not recognize
* Receives gifts, mail, or packages from someone you do not know
* Withdraws from family and friends
* Changes screens or turns off computer when an adult enters a room
* Begins downloading pornography online
https://internetsafety101.org/
What to do if your child discloses sexual abuse:
* Believe!
* Report immediately
* Do not try and confront the suspect online
* 20% children abused before the age of 8
* 90% of child sexual abuse victims know their abuser
* Only 4-8% of child sex abuse reports are fabricated
Parental Control Tools/Spyware
Bark
(text messages, email, social media activity). Auto parental alerts. Unlimited devices.
Qustodio
(YouTube, browser history, text message content, blocks porn, location tracking, and panic button)
Webwatcher (
track and log texts, deleted texts, photos, browser history, location tracking, parental notifications and alerts for risky behavior)
Consider a phone-use contract between you and your child:
Samples can be found
here
Resources:
Colorado Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force
Podcast
Bark Blog
Common Sense Media
Guard Child
How to find vault phone apps
Internet Safety 101