In a world where we can’t live without using digital media, how could we expect our children to stay away from the internet? It is said that children learn from their parents and elders of the family. Therefore, it is in our hands to teach them the right thing about digital media and provide them with a safe internet where they can utilize the benefits of the internet for their betterment without any fears of getting trapped in the fake promises of the online world.

I have seen my cousins give their children their phones or my aunt’s or uncle’s phones for the academic purposes. When I asked the parents what it meant for academic purposes, they told me they handed over the smartphones to the children for gathering ideas about their school projects, reference notes, and updating themselves about the virtual world. They also created separate groups on social media for their children where those girls and boys have the freedom to talk to their friends.

A matter of freedom indeed sounds like we have become ‘modern’ and ‘upgraded’. But, when I inquired from my niece and nephew about their activities with the smartphones they were handed over (or sometimes silently grabbed when the phones sat idle on the table), they replied to me, “Chill, Masi. This is only for fun!”

For fun, indeed. In the name of their ‘academic purposes’, someone is chatting with her boyfriend about their next dating plans, someone is watching the pop singers and mimicking their dance poses for she wants to be an ‘influencer’ after growing up, someone is playing online games for infinity, and someone is chatting with a stranger on a popular social media platform from her mother’s profile, much to her mother’s knowledge and permission.

However, this is a common scenario among the ‘digital’ kids now, and more frequent among teens and young adults as they need a ‘safe space’ for interacting with their ‘reliable’ virtual friends.

Children are innocent, they are like clay idols, but it’s in our hands to mold them in the right way so they can become better humans. Therefore, we must ensure our children have a safe internet so that they can utilize the benefits of digital media for their improvement and betterment.

I have found a solution in Happinetz to fight the internet challenges for kids, teens, and young adults. Happinetz is a box providing parents with a solution to offer their kids safe internet. The box connects to the home router and it could be wired or wirelessly.

Once you have connected the device, it will create a separate WiFi that ensures to filter out age-inappropriate internet. It also helps parents set screen time schedules for their children’s devices connected to this WiFi. Moreover, Happinetz keeps monitoring more than 110 million websites and apps continuously. It is pre-configured this way so that it blocks more than 22 million websites that are adult and unsecured.

Happinetz offers some incredible features that make parents easily monitor and control their children’s Internet usage and online activities.

You can choose any of the modes between Kids, Teen, and Parent for the device control and all these modes come with their own comprehensive and customizable settings.

The Happinetz System filters apps and websites according to 15 categories. Moreover, you can easily switch on or switch off these categories ((except Adult & Security and Safe Search) using the toggle button.

Using the Happinetz System, you can set schedules and limit your child’s internet access through a personalized screen time manager that allows you to customize their online schedule better according to your own preferences.

On the other hand, if you want to give your child more screen time on a particular day, you can easily extend their internet time and modify their internet schedule as required.

I have seen my cousins attend meetings or rush to the kitchen for some pending stuff there, and thus, they forget to take their phones from the kids. My super intelligent niece and nephew never waste a single moment and jump into their half-finished chats or half-watched pop shows.

But the good news is, that the Happinetz System offers a unique feature called ‘Pause Internet’ that allows parents to pause the internet for a while on the device that is connected to the Happinetz network. Until they return and resume it through the Happinetz app, it will stay paused, and thus, children will not get access to the internet when their parents are absent nearby.

For monitoring your child’s online activities, Happinetz offers you Insights to check the internet usage and content being consumed by your child.

Therefore, bring Happinetz to your home to provide safe internet for kids and cherish Happiness together.

(This post is a part of Happinetz – Safe Internet For Kids)