Strategies for families to ensure children are safe online

When it comes to the online safety of their children, parents could build a family media plan to set expectations, maintain open conversations with their kids about their social media use, choose content that’s developmentally appropriate for their child, set good examples and balance time with and without devices by creating “screen-free” times.

These are some of the strategies suggested by a report released by the White House’s Task Force on Kids Online Health and Safety.

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