Parent Resources

Books and Toolkits

• Lol . . .OMG! What Every Student Needs to Know about Online Reputation Management, Digital Citizenship and Cyberbyllying by Matt Ivester, founder of Juicycampus.com, 2011, is a resource for high school or college students

•  A Smart Girl’s Guide to the Internet: How to connect with friends, find what you need, and stay safe online (American Girl Library) by Sharon Cindrich, is a resource for tweens (girls in third to seventh grade). 

• The FTC offers Net Cetera: Chatting with Kids about Being Online— FTC offers a guide for parents with practical tips to help kids navigate the online world.  

Child Identity Theft

• Identity Theft Resource Center provides facts about Identity Theft and Children

• Child Identity Theft: New Evidence Indicates Identity Thieves are Targeting Children for Unused Social Security Numbers by Richard Power, Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Mellon CyLab

• Child Identity Theft from Transunion

• “ID Theft & Account Fraud – Prevention & Cleanup” a helpful resource provided by Consumer Action offered in numerous languages.

Fact Sheets, Articles and Blogs

• Children’s Online Privacy: A Resource Guide for Parents by Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.

• Common Sense Media offers Tips for Protecting Personal Privacy Online.

• Facebook for parents by Common Sense Media teaches parents about  the popular social networking site.

• Parent’s Guide to Protecting Kids’ Privacy Online offered by Common Sense Media.

• Reputation.com’s Reputation Watch offers information about privacy and your reputation.  

• Safety Web  offers helpful and free online parenting resources and articles related to privacy and security online.

• AOL offers safetyclicks, a resource dedicated to privacy and safety issues for online families.

• STOP. THINK. CONNECT. has free, printable posters to raise awareness about good online safety habits and tips. 

• Tips for Parents: Who’s That Girl? Image and Social Media, Girl Scout Institute.

• Facts about Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act from the FTC.

• Google’s Tips for Online Safety including a video presented by Common Sense Media and Google.

Interactive Sites for Children

• Carnegie Cyber Academy, an interactive MySecureCyberspace Game designed to teach fourth and fifth graders Internet safety and computer security.  Created by Carnegie Mellon’s Information Networking Institute and Carnegie Mellon CyLab, the game is a free download from the website.

• Play and Learn: Being Online, an interactive downloadable activity book from insafe for kids aged 4-8, available in nearly 20 languages. insafe also provides activity book guidelines for teachers and parents and offers a number of informational pages for children and for parents.

Mobile Privacy

• Teens and Mobile Phones: A Resource Guide for Parents from Safety Web.

• Privacy in the Age of the Smartphone from Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.

• GPS Tracking: Should Your Teens Use Location Services? by Common Sense Media.

Sexting and Sextortion

• How to prevent teenagers from sexting and protect them from other teens who do, Reputation.com.

• Sexting, the Internet and Your Privacy – What You need to Know, including several PSAs from Planned Parenthood.

Social Networking

• Connectsafely.org offers “A Parent’s Guide to Facebook.

• Controlling How You Share, an instructional page offered by Facebook answering questions and educating users about privacy controls. 

• How to Protect Your Teen on Social Networks: Tips for Parents by Truste.

• OnGuardOnline.gov’s Kids and Socializing Online (available in English and Spanish).

• Yoursphere, an online kid-friendly social networking community dedicated to privacy and safety strictly for people under the age of 17.

• Microsoft Family Safety provides a website listing child-friendly websites.

Videos

• Tech Talk: Beyond Internet Safety by Common Sense Media.

• Protecting personal information and privacy, a video by Parry Aftab.

• iKeepSafe offers a number of short educational videos for parents and kids.

• Cisco offers tips for Keeping Kids Safe Online.

• Playing and Staying Safe Online from You Tube’s Safety Center.