First steps online, made safe: your child learns not to share personal details and to tell a trusted adult about anything odd.
A personalized picture book in which your child is the hero — and masters this challenge themselves. The first story is free.
Create This StoryA chat window lights up in the game: a stranger is messaging your child, asking for their name, their school, maybe a photo. Or your child stumbles across a video while browsing that feels odd, unsettling, or simply wrong — and is not quite sure what to do with it. The first own tablet, the first time browsing without you next to them, the first game with a chat feature: at some point your child is online without you seeing every click, and that makes many parents nervous.
Children between 6 and 11 are fundamentally trusting — they assume a friendly chat partner really is who they claim to be. But the internet has no faces, no voices, no reliable clues about who is really on the other end. At the same time, children this age do not yet fully grasp that a photo or a name, once shared, cannot be taken back. They are curious and click readily — which is exactly why gentle guidance matters, without creating fear.
A story makes these abstract rules concrete. Instead of a list of prohibitions, your child watches a hero land in exactly this situation — an odd message, a question about personal details — and learns how to respond well. Because your child observes the character from the outside, they can think the situation through safely before it ever happens to them. And because the book can be opened again and again, the rule stays present long after the first reading.
In the personalized story, your child is that hero themselves, with their own face on every page. They experience receiving a strange message, not giving in to questions about their name or address, and instead coming to tell you about it — and discover that this is exactly the right, smart response. The story stays age-appropriate throughout and never makes the internet as a whole feel frightening. You can read the first story for free and judge for yourself whether it fits what is currently relevant for your child.
Sit next to your child during their first times online and look at what is happening together, rather than only announcing rules. Agree on clear limits together: no real names, no address, no photos sent to strangers. Promise your child they will never get in trouble for telling you about something odd — that promise removes the fear of having done something wrong, and it is the single most important protection there is. If a stranger keeps contacting your child or asks to meet up, report it to the platform and, if in doubt, to the police.
Digital caution, protecting personal information, recognising warning signs, trusting an adult.
6-11 years
This depends less on age than on maturity and guidance — most children are ready for first, closely supervised steps online from around 6 to 7. More important than a fixed age is agreeing on clear rules together beforehand.
A concrete image helps: once a photo is sent, it cannot be taken back, like ink that cannot be wiped off a page. Explain too that a friendly chat partner is still a stranger whose real identity nobody actually knows.
Stay calm and first praise them for telling you — that is exactly what you want them to keep doing. Look at the message together, block the sender, and report the incident to the platform.
With younger children, direct supervision is worth it; with older children, jointly agreed rules and regular conversations about what they experienced matter more and more. Monitoring software never replaces talking about what your child actually encounters online.
Not if it's told well — it presents knowledge as protection, not the internet as a danger. You can read the first personalized story for free and judge for yourself how it handles the topic.
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