How To Keep Your Kids Safe Online
As parents, we spend a lot of time and energy ensuring that our kids are safe in their physical spaces. We put up safeguards around our homes. We go to great lengths to live in safe neighborhoods and send our kids to safe schools.
But what about our kids’ digital spaces?
The threats for our children are as significant in cyberspace as they are in their physical space.
Kristen Jenson, founder of Defend Young Minds, joins me again in the latest episode of CHRISTIAN PARENT/CRAZY WORLD to discuss the threats our children face in cyberspace and how to protect them.
Our culture says that our children deserve privacy online, but no child deserves to face these threats alone. We may think that our child is just upstairs playing a video game, but there are dangers in digital spaces. CONSIDER THIS: You wouldn’t drop your child off in Central Park and say, “Have fun! I’ll see you in a few hours…” And yet we often leave our kids vulnerable to dangerous influences from around the world when we hand them an unprotected, unmonitored device.
Some digital dangers that can ensnare kids include:
Tackling all the technology surrounding our kids may seem like an insurmountable task, but while our kids may have more tech savvy, we have wisdom. And we must use it to protect our kids.
And don’t forget that Kristen has graciously offered to give a FREE COPY of Good Picture Bad Pictureand Good Picture Bad Picture Junior to one blessed subscriber:
Simply respond to this email and request to be entered for the drawing, which will take place on Friday, June 28th.
To hear this vitally important message about online safety on Life Audio, click on the image below:
About the Guest: Kristen A. Jenson, MA is the founder of Defend Young Minds and #1 best-selling author of the Good Pictures Bad Pictures series of read-aloud books which have translations in 10 languages. She is also the executive producer of the Brain Defense: Digital Safety curriculum and the owner and CEO of Glen Cove Press, LLC.
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