Better Internet for Kids

Digital media are a natural part of our everyday lives, but they can also cause stress or addictive behavior. In the video, you'll find concrete tips: What can you do to free yourself from digital stress, use media in a more targeted way, and thus ensure more balance? The video series is part of the German Safer Internet Centre’s campaign for Safer Internet Day 2023.

Digital media are a natural part of our everyday lives, but they can also cause stress or addictive behavior. In the video, you'll find concrete tips: What can you do to free yourself from digital stress, use media in a more targeted way, and thus ensure more balance? The video series is part of the German Safer Internet Centre’s campaign for Safer Internet Day 2023.

An own smartphone is among the most popular items on Christmas gift list of children as early as primary school age. But coping with a smartphone and its many functionalities requires a certain extent of media competencies and experience. After all, safety settings need to be adjusted, apps and their permissions assessed, and understanding of and respect for own and others’ rights concerning data and photos is necessary. For parents, it is not always easy to know if their child is ready to safely and responsibly use a smartphone with mobile internet access.

In cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Nummer gegen Kummer e.V. has developed a "school box" / box for schools that teachers/schools can order free of charge on our website. The box contains various materials, such as information materials (flyer, poster, infocards) as well as giveaways (sticker). Additionally, a teaching conception can be downloaded on the helpline’s website. Teachers can use it in class to discuss how to deal with worries and problems.

The war in Ukraine is worrying people around the world and dominating the news.
Dealing with the war also plays a major role in schools. In addition to parents and guardians, teachers are important contact persons for adolescents. How can teachers address war in the classroom? How can they strengthen children and young people in dealing with disinformation and promote media and democratic competence? Our new klicksafe info sheet provides help for educators on these and other questions.

This video targets children and teenagers, with the propose of presenting online risks such as cyberbullying or excessive use, gives concrete examples of how these risks affect children on the internet and advices on how they can react when they encounter a harmful situation online. The video then promotes the ctrl_AJUTOR counseling line, encouraging children to access it whenever they find themselves in an unpleasant situation, or further promote it among their peers.

This is a two and a half minute video, describing the concept of FOMO (fear of missing out). It goes around a group of teenagers who constantly check their notifications in different social networks and explains how the fear of missing our manifests: an incontrollable desire to be constantly connected online, to see and react to what friends are posting. The video also promotes JOMO (the joy of missing out) and a set of rules in which one can stay disconnected or spend less time online.

The webinar aims to help parents become better at guiding children and teens to develop healthier habits of creating and sharing content on social media.
Although harmless on the surface (lots of pictures of animals, funny memes, fun songs), these networks were designed for an emotionally mature audience. It also often becomes difficult for adults to manage a large number of interpersonal relationships at the same time, which can lead to deep emotional turmoil; especially for children and adolescents.

The video shows the 6 rights that children have on the internet according to the General comment No. 25 (2021) on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment. Each of the six young Romanian youth panelists present a right and an example of how that particular right is applied.

Nearly a third of children believe that fake news cannot be presented on TV or on news sites. Half of the children rarely or never check the truth of the information found online.