Internet Safety

Tips and Information for Parents

Presented by Shaun
Anderson
March 1, 2016

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help protect your child
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Internet Safety Concerns

Cyberbullying

Exposure to
Inappropriate
Materials

Online Predators

Cyberbull
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Kids who are being cyberbullied are often

bullied in person as well. Additionally, kids
who are cyberbullied have a harder time
getting away from the behavior.
Cyberbullying can happen 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week, and reach a kid even when he or she is
alone. It can happen any time of the day or night.
Cyberbullying messages and images can be posted
anonymously and distributed quickly to a very wide
audience. It can be difficult and sometimes
impossible to trace the source.
Deleting inappropriate or harassing messages,
texts, and pictures is extremely difficult after they
have been posted or sent.

Cyberbullying Statistics

(2015 Cyberbullying
Data, 2015)

Exposure to
Inappropriate
Materials

Do not forget
Though most digital experiences are
positive and uplifting, there are sites that
harm rather than help.
These types of sites are degrading and
desensitizing, and increase feelings of fear
and anxiety.
Keeping your childs safety in mind, it is
crucial to maintain open communication with
your child about his/her emotional health.

Types of inappropriate material

your
child may be exposed to:
Hate or racist websites
Sexual explicit content graphic
violence
Information about satanic or cult
groups
Recipes for making bombs or other
explosives
Promotional material about tobacco, alcohol, or
drugs

Exposure to Inappropriate
Materials Statistics
42.1% of kids admit they have seen online porn. One in 16 have been exposed to
hardcore pornography.
One in 12 have exchanged messages with sexual content to other people, while
one in 25 have sent graphic photos of themselves.
25% of children get away with pretending to be older to get an account online.
One in 20 children admitted arranging a secret meeting with someone they met
online.
Almost three in 10 parents (29%) let their kids use the internet without any
restrictions or supervision.
(5 Scary Statistics, 2015)

Internet
Predators

About Sexual Predators

They look for
children that
are emotionally
vulnerable
which can be
related to
personal issues
derived from
problems at
school or
home. They
use these
issues to
befriend the
victim and
empathize with
them while
building a
pseudo
friendship and
trust.

Sexual
predators do
exist and are a
very real
threat. They
target both
boys and girls
of all ages and
use the
anonymity of
the Internet to
their
advantage
since they can
be whomever
they want.

Many are
master
manipulators
with skills that
can cripple any
child's sense of
awareness.
This is known
as the
grooming
process and
predators look
for children
that are more
technically
savvy than
their parents.

(Sexual Predators, n.d.)

If a child
indicates
frustration with
parents or
teachers at
school the
predator might
suggest the
child's parents
are way too
strict or their
teacher is
being unfair
and this plays
right into the
adolescent
mind as they
look for people
to verify their
feelings.

Internet Predators
Statistics

One in five U.S. teenagerswho regularly log on to the Internetsays they have received an unwanted sexual
solicitation via the Web.Solicitations were defined as requests to engage in sexual activities or sexual talk,
or to give out personal sexual information. (only 25% of those told a parent)
Internet sexual predators tend to fall between the ages of 18 and 55, although some are older or younger.
Their targets tend to be between the ages of 11 and 15.
In 100% of the cases, teens that are the victims of sexual predators have gone willingly to meet with them.
There are 799,041 Registered Sex Offenders in the United States (2015).
Teens are willing to meet with strangers:16 percent of teens considered meeting someone they've only
talked to online and 8 percent have actually met someone they only knew online.
33% of teens are Facebook friends with other people they have not met in person.
(Online Predators,
2015)

Internet
Safety Tips

For a list of
tips the
parents
should follow
to keep
children safe
online visit
the National
Crime Preven
tion

Links to
Tutorials

WebWise for Pa
rents

Internet Sa
fety

Steps to Good Digital Pa

ing

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Sourc
es safety - Shared Hope International.
5 scary statistics about internet

(2013). Retrieved from http://sharedhope.org/2013/08/07/5-scarystatistics- about-children-on-the-internet/

Online predators - Statistics. (2015). Retrieved from
http://puresight.com/Pedophiles/Online-Predators/onlinepredators-statistics.html#sthash.4ehtiuJR.dpuf
Sexual predators online. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.protectkids.com/dangers/onlinepred.htm
2015 cyberbullying data - Cyberbullying research center. (2015).
Retrieved from http://cyberbullying.org/2015-data/