Useful tips

1. Cyber-activated
   Is the Web an unexplored land for you? Inform yourself, open a Facebook profile, use Whatsapp.... it will be useful and fun, and you'll find out why your children spend so much time connected. But remember not to invade their spaces. Visit the Updated section on what they do>
2. Enthusiasticity
   Especially when they are small, it helps your children to recognize the opportunities of the Web, show interesting sites and constructive interactions. But they also cultivate their interests outside the Net: music, sports, friends, art. The Internet cannot replace real life.
3. Chathier
   Discuss the risks of the Net (and life) with your children. Become a point of reference if you have any questions or concerns. Visit the Communicate with your children section.
4. Be a model to follow
   Do you navigate safely? Switch off the phone at night? If your relationship with technology is healthy and balanced, the same thing will probably happen to your children.
5. Don't spy, ask!
   The more you know what your children do (goers, what they like, etc.), the more you can protect them. Of course, without invading their field and depending on their age and maturity.
6. Put a security limit: Parental Control
   How can we make our children surf safely, avoiding potentially harmful or diseducational content?
   Parental control or family filter is the system that allows a parent to monitor or block access to certain activities by the child (pornographic sites, violent images or pages with keywords indicative of potentially harmful content) and also to set the time of use of computers, TVs, smartphones and tablets.
   To feel more secure and to allow even the smallest children to explore the web safely, it is therefore best to use the parental control functions that are now found on every connected electronic device.
   Features and functionalities of parental control (please visit the dedicated section)
   Spreading personal information may be very risky. Decide together what you can send/show/share/share and what not. Visit the Privacy section.
7. Go to school also you
   It is there that your children spend a lot of their time. Try to remember what it was for you, it will help you to get in touch with them emotionally. And refer to their teachers to exchange views, knowledge and important information about school life and beyond.... Team play always rewards.

THE VADE-MECUM OF CONNECTED GENERATIONS

The guide is aimed at parents, teachers, social and mental health professionals, children's professionals and, in general, all those who are involved in the issues in question or simply interact with the world of youth and intend to acquire more cognitive and operational tools on the risks related to the use of ICT.
The document is structured in two parts:
a section dedicated to the in-depth study - with theoretical and operational references - of some issues such as: cyberbullying, prosuicide sites, pro-anorexia and pro-bulimia sites, online gambling, online child pornography, online grooming, sexting, online commerce, online video games and Internet addiction;
a section with details of the services that can be contacted at regional level when dealing with one of the situations considered.