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Ages 5+ · Digital Life · Staying safe
Keep your password secret
🔑secret key🏠family🤫quiet📦family box
A password is a secret key.
The big ideaA password is a secret key. Only your family may know it.

How it works

A password is a secret key, just for you and your family.

Whoever has the key can get in.

Saying it out loud is like an echo: it travels.

Only your grown-up at home may know it.

Family may know• Mom or Dad• The grown-up who looks after meKeep it from• A friend, even a best one• A game player• A message that asks
Who may know it, and who may not.

Example 1: Cover the keys

  1. When you type your key, hold a hand over the keys like a roof.
  2. Nobody can see it.
  3. Try it together on a pretend keyboard.
Hand up like a roofNobody sees
A good habit.

Example 2: No sticky notes

  1. Do not stick your key on a note on the screen.
  2. Whoever walks by can read a note.
  3. Keep it in your head and in the family box.

Example 3: No shouting or messages

  1. Do not shout it on a hill, or send it in a message.
  2. Messages get passed on, like an echo.
  3. A message that asks for it is a trick.

Words to know

password
A secret key for your things. Only your family may know it.
secret
Something we keep quiet.
echo
A sound that bounces back and travels.

Watch out

Try it

  1. Who may know your secret key?
  2. Is shouting your key on a hill a good habit?
  3. A key gets out. What do you do?
  4. Where does a secret key live?
Answers: 1. My family · 2. No · 3. Tell a grown-up · 4. In my head and the family box
Try at homeAsk a grown-up where our family keeps its passwords safe, and ask them to show you.
For grown-upsMake a new key together, keep it quiet, and talk about who may know it: only your family.
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