Peer-reviewed article
Safety challenges for the children on the Internet
Dejan Viduka, Ana Bašić, Igor Lavrnić ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This paper examines online safety challenges facing children on the internet, with a focus on the role of parents in protecting children from digital hazards. The authors analyze secondary sources to identify risks associated with risky online encounters and provide recommendations for reducing harm. The paper advises parents, teachers and educators on how to build trust with children while managing online safety risks.
Key points
- Online networking exposes children to risky encounters that can cause harm
- Parents face significant challenges in protecting children from online security hazards
- Building mutual trust between adults and children is essential for effective online safety education
- Parents, teachers and educators need guidance on reducing online risks
- Digital skills and social support help children navigate online environments
Limitations
This is a literature review without empirical data collection or evaluation of specific interventions. The document does not provide evidence about which protection strategies are effective or how prevalent online harms are among Serbian children.
Abstract
Online networking offers completely new findings that extend previous research; nowadays, children are gaining the digital skills and social support they need to navigate this fast changing terrain. But online networking also identifies the struggles they encounter, pinpointing those for whom harm can come out of risky online encounters. In this paper, the main focus is on the parents and the challenges of child protection from security hazards that threaten global computer networking. By examining the secondary sources, the challenges were analyzed with the result in a form of recommendation of how to overcome such delicate situations. Parents, teachers and educators that work with children who use modern technologies are advised how to reduce the risk and create contacts with children and build mutual trust that is extremely important in the process of education.