Teach your children how to stay safe online

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The good news is that with consistent smart parenting, a young person’s YouTube use can be a positive experience.
How to Help
Taking the following steps can help you make sure that your children aren’t putting themselves at risk when they use YouTube:
Visit the site yourself. Anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can access YouTube for free, so take a few moments to tour the site to see what all the fuss is about. Visiting the site will dispel any “fear of the unknown” that you may be experiencing, and will also allow you to speak intelligently about the topic when you are talking to your children.
Monitor your kids’ YouTube use. Depending upon their age phone number data trustworthiness, your children shouldn’t be doing much online without your knowledge and approval. Limiting their screen time, putting the computer in a highly visible location in your house, and checking their browsing histories can help you monitor and control the sites they are seeing – and can help you to ensure that they’re not developing an unhealthy dependence upon the Internet. Talk to your children about what they’re doing online, express any concerns you have, and work with them to establish computer rules that the whole family can live with.
Review any videos or photos before they post them online, and make sure that they don’t contain identifying information such as license plate numbers, your address, or the name or location of their school. Make sure that the files aren’t geo-tagged (embedded with information that can place them on a map), and be sure that they haven’t tagged the photos with names, locations, or other identifiers. And of course make sure that they know to never arrange an in-person meeting with someone they’ve corresponded with online.
Disable comments on your children’s videos. YouTube is an easy way to share videos with friends and family members around the world. To eliminate unwanted commentary from anonymous malcontents, just select “disable comments” when uploading your video.
Report offensive content. Every YouTube video is displayed over a series of links, one of which is “Flag.” Click this link to report any video with content that you believe is inappropriate or in violation of the site’s community guidelines (which include bans on criminal activities, excessive violence, sexual explicitness, predatory behavior, and copyright violations).
The online activities of teens and adolescents are likely to be continually “challenging” to the parents who are trying to keep them safe. But by maintaining a practice of open and honest communication with your children, you will retain a positive presence in their lives, and will be able to address small problems before they become major crises.