Teach your kids to ask themselves!

When you teach your kids to ask themselves questions about the information they read or watch will develop their critical thinking and create in them the habit of checking and evaluating the information that floods them before they believe and share it.
Your own behavior in the online space also plays a very important role here - what you read, what you share, what you believe.

Here are some of the main questions that are important for you and your children to ask:

• Has the story been reported anywhere else?
• Is it on the radio, TV or in the newspapers?
• Have you heard of the media, organization or the author that published the story?
• Does the website where you found the story look genuine? (or is a copycat website that's designed to look like another genuine website)
• Does the website address at the very top of the page look real? Is the end of the website something normal like '.co.uk' or '.com', and not something unusual, like 'com.co'?
• Does the photo or video look normal?
• Does the story sound believable?