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Three important steps to keeping your children and teenagers safer online

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1. Help empower your children to be safer, confident explorers online

Explore Be Internet Awesome to teach your children and teens the fundamentals of digital

citizenship and online safety.

2. Create a supervised account on Google to help your child make smart choices online.

With a supervised account, you can manage their experience on YouTube, Play, Chrome and other Google apps and services.

3. Set the right parental controls for your family

Create digital ground rules, boundaries and expectations together with Google Family Link. View

ConnectSafely's guide to parental controls to learn more about settings across the web.

What are parents searching for on Google?

How should I talk to my children and teenagers about online safety?
How much screen time is too much for my child?
What are some supplemental learning activities for children?
How can I set up parental controls?

How should I talk to my children and teenagers about online safety?

Have open conversations with children and teenagers about being safe online.

Online safety

Use the Be Internet Awesome Family Guide and YouTube's guide to exploring confidently to discuss, learn and think about online safety together.

Use these fun activities to have conversations with your children about online safety and sharing.

How much screen time is too much for my child?

Find tools and guidance to help choose the right experience for your family.

Screen time

Talk to your children about when and why they use digital devices and get expert advice and tips from Headspace to help you decide how much screen time is best for your family.

What are some supplemental learning activities for children?

How can I set up parental controls?

Learn about parental controls with these helpful guides.

Parental control

Google Family Link gives you tools to share location, manage privacy settings and understand how your children are spending time on their device.

Explore tools and resources to help you guide your children's experience on YouTube Kids.

From encouraging responsible online behaviour to blocking certain websites, see this family guide to parental controls.

Meet our partners

We continuously seek guidance on our approach and partner with trusted organisations and experts so that together, we can build a safer Internet for all.
  • Family Online Safety Institute logo
  • ConnectSafely logo
  • The Net Safety Collaborative
  • Sesame Workshop logo
  • PBS KIDS logo
  • Headspace logo
  • YouTube Advisors