Keeping children safe online: a guide for families

Children grow up with smartphones, tablets, consoles and smart TVs, and parents face very practical questions. How long a day is okay? How do you block TikTok or YouTube without arguing every evening? And what helps when your child gets around screen time more cleverly than expected?

Here you will find guides and comparisons for everyday family life: parental controls on the phone, rules in the Wi-Fi, internet breaks for homework and bedtime, and the difference between parental control apps and filters in the home network. We first show what is possible with the built-in tools from Apple, Google and your router, and where their limits are. No technology replaces talking with your child. Good rules just make it easier to stick to them.

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