Better Internet for Kids

Today, screens are with us day and night! In fact, 1/3 of teenagers wake up at night to look at their notifications*. However, numerous studies have shown the harmful effects of screens on sleep.
So how can you help your teenager disconnect at night?

This methodological material is designed to help you look at the messages created by the media "from within" to make it easier to understand how the media can mislead us into creating bubbles of false information, which in turn helps us to form a misconception about existing reality. This lesson will help to teach how to recognize misleading information and how to respond to it, to reduce its negative impact.

The required age to register on a social network is 13.
It is important for children to understand that they have to wait until they are old enough to join, but that they can prepare for it. So how do you explain to your child that they are not old enough to be on social networks?

Today, digital devices have multiplied: tablets, computers, smartphones, consoles... Children have more and more ways of going on the Internet and may have difficulty regulating their screen time. Setting up a parental control can help support your child in his or her digital life. Why and how to set up parental controls at home?

Social networks, video games or instant messaging: young people have more and more options to communicate online. It is not always easy to explain to them that they should be careful about what they share and with whom. But how can we teach them to be wary of strangers and protect their privacy online?

This methodological material is designed to help the media look at the “inside” of messages, so that it can be easier to understand how the media can mislead us by creating bubbles of false information that lead to misconceptions about existing reality. This media literacy methodological material will help to learn how to recognize and react to misleading information and reduce its negative impact.

That guide has been created by Internet Sans Crainte in collaboration with our partner Ceméa. It aims to help parents accompany their teenagers in their digital life with concrete advice to discuss, protect and adopt good reflexes online by addressing 8 themes:
- How can you help your teens balance their screen time?
- How can you help your teens protect their personal data on social media?
- How can you help your teens manage their image on social media?
- How can you help your teens spot fake news online?
- How can you protect your teens from offensive content?

CTRL is a website for young people who are having sexual thoughts about children. The site contains information and guidance on how you can get help to handle your thoughts and how you can get help to live a good life without hurting yourself or other people. An important feature of the CTRL website is an anonymous self evaluation test in which one can answer questions about one's thoughts and behaviour regarding children. Eventually, the test provides the respondent with the most important information tailored to this person's specific situation.

Point de Contact launches a compilation of comic strips dealing with various types of illegal content and situations online, such as : incest and dissemination of child sexual exploitation material, child grooming activities, sextortion activities, dissemination of non-consensual content involving minors or “revenge porn”, hate speech and apology for acts of terrorism.

In order to enhance the impact of our awareness campaigns toward families we decided to produce interactive resources promoting parent-child dialogue. Therefore we have recently designed an interactive quiz where Parents and children are invited to take turns answering a series of questions on how they get information and check the veracity of information on the web. By comparing the answers, the game highlights the points on which the parents' and children's uses or opinions agree or differ... which can lead to interesting debates!