Online Safety Gaming Toolkit
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The Toolkit offers easy-to-understand practical tips and advice that will help parents talk to their children about online safety, focused explicitly on online gaming.
It includes:
- Tips to make online gaming a whānau activity so children come to you for help
- How to recognise features of 'online' games and manage the additional risks associated with chatting online
- How purchasing within games occurs and how to avoid unwanted surprises on credit cards
- Information to enhance digital parenting knowledge
- Details about the online risks and challenges children may face
- Advice about how to help children
It’s essential that parents feel confident to have ongoing conversations with their children about their online gaming activities, as these conversations have been proven to minimise the harm that can occur if things do go wrong online.
As parents and caregivers come to understand the risks that apply to children in line with the games they play and the experience they’ve developed, they’ll be able to focus their energy where it makes a significant impact. It’s important that young people develop good online gaming habits.
Gaming Toolkit(https://netsafe.org.nz/gaming/gaming-toolkit)
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