Understand your child's Internet usage habits like VNPT Family Safe

With the rapid spread of harmful information on the Internet, in order to protect their children from dangers, many parents are struggling with whether or not to ban their children from using the Internet. Instead of banning, using the VNPT Family Safe service as a method to guide and shape children on how to use the Internet safely has helped parents accompany their children to grow up in cyberspace.

The Internet has become an indispensable part of life, attracting a huge number of users, especially teenagers and children. Besides the positive impacts, many negative effects from the Internet have caused unpredictable dangers and consequences.

Is banning Internet use an effective way to protect children online?

According to the Department of Children, Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, up to 91% of Vietnamese children use the Internet but only 10% of them know how to use the Internet safely. This is an extremely alarming number when threats in cyberspace are always lurking and targeting children. Because children do not have enough skills and experience to identify dangers on the Internet, once they get lost in the Internet, they are easily immersed in the virtual world, leading to many consequences such as: being lured, enticed to commit unethical acts, reduced ability to socialize, being bullied in cyberspace... affecting academic performance and daily life.

Educating children with corporal punishment or strict rules such as absolutely prohibiting children from using social networks, rudely asking them to check their phones makes children lose their privacy and gradually form a distance with their parents. This method is even counterproductive, causing children to develop a hostile mentality and find ways to escape from their parents' control. This is considered an ineffective educational method, easily causing physical and mental harm to children. Instead of maintaining the viewpoint of teaching children according to strict disciplinary rules, parents should become companions, willing to share with their children the luggage and skills to identify good and bad information on the Internet, thereby gradually shaping their children's behavior, helping them to form healthy Internet usage habits from the very first days of access.

VNPT Family Safe is an effective solution to protect children in cyberspace.

Children need to be properly protected online

To address parents' concerns and help parents protect their children properly online, VNPT Family Safe service, as a method of guiding and shaping children's safe internet usage, has helped parents accompany their children to grow up online. Honored to win the 2023 Vietnam Talent Award, VNPT Family Safe is known as a network access protection and monitoring solution that takes advantage of the inherent advantages of one of the largest telecommunications - information technology networks in Vietnam, VNPT. The most successful step of VNPT Family Safe is to change the perspective of the majority of Vietnamese parents, from prohibiting and closely monitoring their children's use of the Internet to accompanying and understanding their children's behavior.

Once very worried about her child's safety on the internet, Ms. Hong Hanh, 32 years old, self-employed shared: "After 2 months of using VNPT Family Safe to manage my child's Internet usage time, I realized that just because I forbid them, they will not listen, sometimes it can be counterproductive. Parents' guidance is very important in shaping their child's Internet usage behavior and VNPT Family Safe has helped me do that."

Not only Ms. Hanh, other parents have also had unexpected experiences when using VNPT Family Safe to build healthy Internet usage habits for their children. Forming habits for children from an early age not only helps children have the skills to prevent and identify inappropriate content on the Internet but also helps enhance thinking and stimulate development in children.

Mr. Thanh Duy, 51 years old, a businessman, feels like he has been liberated from some of his labor since VNPT Family Safe has helped him monitor his children's activities on the Internet. He shared: “Due to the nature of my job, I often travel on business trips, so it is extremely difficult for me to instruct and monitor my children's Internet usage. Luckily, my family uses VNPT network and integrates VNPT Family Safe service. Thanks to that, no matter how long I am on a business trip, I can easily manage all of my children's Internet activities with just one application. Indeed, VNPT Family Safe is worth the investment.”

It can be seen that, in order to properly orient children, parents need to equip themselves with essential knowledge and skills. In addition, having a certain understanding of tools and solutions to protect and monitor network access will be a solid foundation to support parents on the journey of accompanying their children to form safe and healthy Internet usage habits. VNPT Family Safe is expected to become a powerful tool for parents in accompanying their children to grow up in the digital space, protecting millions of Vietnamese families.

VNPT Family Safe is a solution of the Information Security Center that was honored at the 2023 Vietnam Talent Awards with outstanding features such as: Blocking harmful content, managing devices and access time, providing reports on family Internet usage... The solution is currently provided to all customers using VNPT Internet with a free trial offer for the first 2 months. Customers can register by contacting the toll-free hotline 18001166 or going to the nearest VinaPhone representative office. Details at the website https://familysafe.vn .

Source: https://www.qdnd.vn/kinh-te/cac-van-de/hieu-thoi-quen-su-dung-internet-cua-con-nhu-vnpt-family-safe-798845