Ages 5+ · Digital Life · Staying safe
Safe places online
🚧fence🧑grown-up📺kids' video✨shiny sign
Ask first, then go together.The big ideaPlay in places a grown-up set up. Ask first, then go together.
How it works
A safe place is set up by a grown-up, who stays close.
A park has a fence and a gate. A grown-up opens the gate.
Online, we do not wander off alone.
Ask a grown-up first, then go together.
Example 1: A video app
- Mom picks a kids' video app and sits close by.
- A grown-up set it up, so it is a safe place.
Example 2: A counting game
- Dad sets up a counting game and sits beside you.
- It is made for kids, so it is safe too.
Example 3: A shiny sign
- A shiny sign says, come over here!
- Nobody has checked it. Ask a grown-up first.
- If it is safe, you go together.
A sign nobody checked.Words to know
- safe place
- A place a grown-up set up and checked.
- ask first
- Check with a grown-up before you go.
- together
- With a grown-up beside you.
Watch out
- A shiny sign is not a reason to go.
- A link from someone you do not know is not a safe place.
- If you tap a sign by mistake, tell a grown-up.
- You are never in trouble for tapping by mistake.
Try it
- Who sets up a safe place?
- A shiny sign says come here. What do you do?
- Do we go out the gate alone?
- Is a counting game Dad set up a safe place?
Answers: 1. A grown-up · 2. Ask a grown-up first · 3. No · 4. Yes
Try at homeAsk a grown-up which places on our screens are safe for you, and ask them to show you.
For grown-upsWalk through your child's favorite apps together and name which ones you set up.