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Online Safety Tips for Families

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This post about Online Safety Tips for Families is #sponsored by Google for the #SaferInternetDay and #BeInternetAwesome 2019 Live Event Campaign! As always, all opinions are my own.

Happy Safer Internet Day!

Did you know “Safer Internet Day” is a thing? If you didn’t, neither did I until this week! As a mom, ever since my kids went from infants to toddlers who could unlock my smartphone, I’ve been concerned about their safety. I would hear the American Academy of Pediatrics talk about “screen time dangers” and be concerned when I felt they were looking at Veggie Tales or Elmo too much.

It seems as though we went from VeggieTales to YouTube in the blink of an eye, but here we are!

My son is officially a TEENAGER as of this month (I’m not ready for that), and my daughter is a TWEEN! We are officially in that season of life when internet safety is a huge concern. And I’m ready to tackle it better, thanks to what I’m about to share here on the blog.

Sure, I could walk around “concerned” about the world we live in, bullies and how being connected 24/7 is affecting our mental health. Or, I could do what I did with Google’s Safer Internet Day celebration and the Be Internet Awesome Adventure in San Antonio– LEARN! I’m ready to get all the knowledge I can, in order to pass it on to my kids. And here on the blog, I’m sharing all this with you, so you and your kids can benefit, too!

Internet Safety First!

It’s all about being safe online, keeping our loved ones safe and, as often as we can, just HUG THE INTERNET!

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This week, February 5th to be exact, was Safer Internet Day. Google has a Kids & Families team and this was a HUGE deal for them. They really want people and communities to come “Together for a better internet.” I couldn’t love that more!

Be Internet Awesome

Would you consider yourself to be “Internet Awesome?” If you post and share encouragement online, build your community, help others, and practice privacy, you’re on the right track! You can also check out Google’s Kids & Families team’s Family Link for more ideas on how to be Internet Awesome!

What are healthy digital habits? Take this quick quiz!

If you answered YES to any of those questions, you’re pretty healthy when it comes to digital habits. Keep it up!

Be Internet Awesome, Interactive & Fun!

That’s what Google’s Be Internet Awesome Experience in San Antonio was all about: teaching kids, parents, teachers and the community in general how to stay safe online and use the internet for good. They had interactive exhibits and games to help kids have fun while they learned how to deal with bullies online, and how to encourage their friends with positive messages!

There’s a game that helps you create a STRONG password, and it challenges you to see if you can remember it! And there’s another interactive electronic puzzle that makes you think about WHAT you share online and WHO you share it with. That one really made me think!

Teach Your Kids to Be Internet Awesome!

Here are a few tips and tools to help you and your family Be Internet Awesome:

More official Google for Education Links:

Please share this with your friends so they can BE INTERNET AWESOME, too!

I hope these Online Safety Tips for Families truly help your family Be Internet Awesome on Safer Internet Day and every day!

Laughing (and browsing safely online) thru life,

Coppelia