Online Safety
for Kids
Predators no longer need to be near your child to reach them. They reach them through gaming chats, social media messages, and apps you may never have heard of. This course teaches your family exactly how that happens and how to stop it.
Three Doors Into Your Child's Life
Predators do not knock on your front door any more. They come through the devices your children already carry.
Gaming Platforms
Voice chat, private lobbies, and in-game messaging give strangers direct access to children with no parental visibility. Predators offer gifts, in-game currency, and friendship to build trust over weeks or months.
Social Media
Fake profiles, follower requests, and disappearing messages. A predator can appear to be another child, learn your child's school, routine, and interests, and never once raise a flag in front of you.
Messaging Apps
Encrypted chats, vanishing photos, and apps that hide inside other apps. Once the conversation moves here it becomes invisible, and this is where grooming turns into sextortion.
Banning Screens Is Not a Strategy
Every parent has tried it. Take the phone away, block the app, set a time limit. It works for a week and then it does not, because children need these platforms for school, for friendships, and for growing up in the world they actually live in.
The alternative is teaching them to recognise what is happening to them. A child who can identify a grooming pattern in the first three messages is safer than a child with parental controls and no understanding.
- Built for children who already use devices daily
- Focused on recognition, not restriction
- Teaches parents what to look for without spying
What Your Family Will Learn
Seven modules covering every stage, from how contact begins through to what to do if it has already happened.
Where Your Children Actually Spend Their Time
The course covers the specific settings, risks, and warning signs on the platforms children use most.
Warning Signs You Will Learn to Recognise
Behaviour changes that suggest something is happening online. The course covers each of these in detail, along with how to respond.
Switching screens or hiding the device when you walk into the room
New online friends they will not talk about or cannot describe
Receiving gifts, game credits, or money from an unknown source
Withdrawal from family activities or friends they used to enjoy
Being online at unusual hours, particularly late at night
Emotional distress immediately after using a device
New apps appearing, or apps you do not recognise on their device
Deleting message history or clearing browsing data regularly
Parents Learn Alongside Their Children
Most online safety advice is written for one or the other. This course is designed to be worked through together, because the conversations it starts are as valuable as the material itself.
Children learn what to watch for. Parents learn what changes in behaviour actually mean, and how to ask about it without triggering defensiveness.
- Watch together at your own pace, on any device
- Printable device agreement for your household
- Conversation starters for difficult topics
- Platform settings checklist you can work through in an evening
CAPE's courses aren't just about self-defense. They teach teens to be emotionally strong, mentally powerful, aware and cautious. It's a relief knowing our children have these tools to stay safe.
Included in Complete Protection and Family Elite
Online Safety for Kids comes bundled with the Complete Protection Plan alongside every other CAPE program, which works out considerably better value than buying courses individually.
Complete Protection Plan
Online Safety for Kids plus KATS Anti-Abduction, Physical Self-Defense for both age groups, Tigers vs. Rabbits, ABC of Personal Safety, and Family Emergency Protocols.
Before You Start
You Cannot Watch Every Screen.
Teach Them to Watch for Themselves.
Predators reach children through the devices they already carry. Give your family the knowledge to recognise it, refuse it, and report it.