If the house has a child who goes online, you should adjust the browser accordingly. It is necessary to do this in order to close the child access to "unnecessary" information, which could be harmful for the student.
Depending on the age and level of development, children perceive information received from the Internet differently and also have different ways of handling it. It is important for us to understand here how the Internet can be considered only as a benefit for the student.
For example, we take children aged 7 to 9 years. Often, students only begin to learn how to communicate with the Internet at home and at school. In school they are trained under the supervision of a teacher, and at home this role is assigned to parents. The computer should be in the common room so that the parents can at any time control the child. Looking through the sites together, gradually accustom the child to share with you what he has seen. If the child decides to use e-mail, teach him to use the family electronic box. Together with the child, find the sites that interest him at this age and save them in the "Favorites" browser section. To view, just click on the desired name. For safety reasons, install filters. Consider the fact that a child can surf the Internet from one of his friends without permission from his parents. Explain to him what he can face on the Internet, and tell me how to find a way out of this situation. Check with the child when to use the Internet.
By the age of 10 to 12, schoolchildren are already consciously starting to use the Internet to help with school assignments, they have hobbies and hobbies. Together with the children discuss the reliability of sites, interest them in the search for useful and quality information. Solve with your child questions about the family. For example, choosing a place to go on vacation or buying a new thing via the Internet. Let the child try to find several options. Talk to him about the permitted and prohibited activities on the Internet. Explain what information, and in what cases you can disclose, how to interact with the user and the risks involved, and how you can protect your identity.
The third group. Children from 13 to 15 years . At this age, children are looking for friends on the Internet, and therefore, their actions allow you to go beyond the reasonable. At this age of "psychological self-affirmation," many children become withdrawn and try to keep their actions secret. Parents should take part in discussions and more often than usual take an interest in whom the child communicates on the Internet. If you notice that the child is interested in questions on sexual topics, then help him to contact online services that deal with issues of sexuality and health for young people. The child should understand that at any moment he can talk to his parents if he encounters something unpleasant on the Internet. Internet for the student should be safe and multifunctional. If he wants to put his photo and personal information on the website, help him. Tell him how to create a personal password without providing any information about himself (postal address, telephone, school, sports section, etc.). Do not give anyone a password and change it regularly.
Discuss the consequences of providing information to the children. Block e-mail settings so that the child receives mail only from the specified recipients. Agree with the child about the choice of websites that he will visit and about the time of use. Using filters, block sites containing dangerous information, restrict the list of interlocutors. If you receive a letter from an unknown spam address, do not answer it, or better not open it. If the child has read the "spam", he should not believe his content and in any case not answer it. If, nevertheless, the child trusted someone or downloaded the virus, do not put it to him and blame it, do not deny access to the Internet, better think about how this can be avoided. It is necessary to monitor the actions of the child. Using the "Watch Log" function, you can check the websites visited by the child recently (although the "Browsing History" of web pages is easy to remove - the child does not need to know about it).
You need to know that you need to protect your computer. Regularly use antivirus software and, by downloading new files, be careful. When communicating on the Internet, remember that not all users are frank.
Since the schoolboy's body is still weak and the bone skeleton is forming, several rules must be adhered to:
- The keyboard should be on the sliding panel. In this case, the child does not sit with raised shoulders and the blood supply in the cervical spine is not disturbed;
- The chair should be adjusted;
- Since the child constantly strains his eyes and focuses the lens for a short distance for a long time - this leads to the loss of diopters, so every 15 minutes, the eyes need to rest.
If the child at work at the computer began to laugh, scream, put his feet on the table - then he was tired. It is necessary to take a break of 20 minutes or more.
Becomes an Internet friend to your child or enemy - depends only on you. The most important thing is that now you know everything about the Internet - harm or benefit for the student, it's up to you!