Online SafetyYour child and the Message From a Stranger
↗Your child is playing the building game on the tablet when a message pops up from a player called CoolKing99. 'Hi! What is your real name and where do you live?' It feels friendly. It also feels strange. Your child remembers what Papa said, that a real friend does not need to ask that in a game. Your child does not reply, carries the tablet to Papa and shows him. Papa blocks the player and says, 'Perfect. That is exactly what you do.'
Lesson: If a message feels strange, show it to a grown-up before you reply
Online SafetyYour child and the Photo of the Front Door
↗Bhaiya lets Your child post a photo on the family account for the first time. Your child takes one on the doorstep in school uniform, with the flat number on the door and the school badge shining. Bhaiya looks. 'Anyone who sees this knows where you live and where you study.' Your child had not thought of that. They take a new one at the park, with the swing and a very big grin and no numbers anywhere. That one gets forty hearts.
Lesson: A good photo shows your smile, not your address
Online SafetyYour child and the Class Group Chat
↗The Class 3 group chat is for homework, but tonight someone posts a silly photo of Karan asleep on the bus and the laughing stickers start piling up. Your child's thumb is over the laughing sticker too. Then Your child imagines Karan opening the chat. Your child types instead, 'Delete it, guys, he will feel bad.' Two others agree. The photo goes. At school Karan does not know anything happened, and Your child decides that is exactly right.
Lesson: Before you tap the laughing sticker, imagine who will read it
Online SafetyYour child and the Secret Password
↗ At school, Ritu asks for Your child's game password so she can play at home and collect coins for both of them. She is Your child's best friend, so it should be fine. But Amma said a password is like the house key, not even for best friends. Your child says, 'I cannot give that, but come to my house on Saturday and we will play together.' Ritu sulks for a minute. On Saturday they get more coins than ever, on one screen, side by side.
Lesson: A password is a house key, even for a best friend
Online SafetyYour child and the Flying Elephant Video
↗ Cousin Vivek sends a video of an elephant flying over a temple, and it looks real. Your child almost forwards it to the whole class group. Then Your child notices the elephant's shadow goes the wrong way. Your child shows Papa, who searches and finds it was made with a computer. Your child writes back to Vivek, 'Fake! Look at the shadow.' Vivek is amazed. Now they have a game, spotting the wrong shadows, and Your child is winning.
Lesson: Look twice before you forward once
Online SafetyYour child and the Game That Wanted a Tap
↗ A bright new racing game shows up as an advertisement in the middle of Your child's drawing app, with a big green button that says Install Now. All the cars are shiny. Your child's finger hovers, then stops, because the rule at home is ask before you download, every single time. Your child takes the tablet to Amma. She reads the small letters, finds it wants to see all the photos, and says no. They find a proper racing game together instead, and it is better.
Lesson: Ask before you download, every single time
Online SafetyYour child and the Timer on the Fridge
↗ The kitchen timer on the fridge rings at thirty minutes and Your child is one level away from the castle. Nobody is watching. Your child could play just five more minutes. Instead Your child saves the game and puts the tablet on the shelf, face down, exactly like the rule. It is hard. Then Your child goes to the balcony and finds Papa fixing the cycle. By dinner the castle is still there, waiting, and the cycle has a new bell.
Lesson: The castle will wait, the afternoon will not
Online SafetyYour child and Dadaji's Lottery Message
↗ In the village, Dadaji shows Your child a message on his phone. 'You have won twenty lakh rupees, click here.' He is excited and reaching for the link. Your child holds his hand. 'Dadaji, wait. Did you buy a lottery ticket?' He did not. 'Then it is a trick. Papa says never click a link that wants your bank details.' They delete it together. Dadaji is a little sad about the twenty lakh, so Your child plants a rupee coin in the garden for luck.
Lesson: Nobody gives away lakhs to someone who did not ask
Online SafetyYour child and the Quiz That Asked Too Much
↗ A pop-up quiz promises to say which animal Your child is, and the first questions are fun. Favourite colour, favourite food. Then it asks for full name, date of birth, school name and Papa's mobile number. Your child frowns. No quiz needs a school name to pick an animal. Your child closes it, tells Amma, and Amma says it was collecting information to sell. So they play their own quiz on paper. Your child is an otter, Amma says, because of the splashing.
Lesson: A game that asks where you study is not a game
Online SafetyYour child and the Shiny Coins
↗ In the pet-shop game, a box glows and offers five hundred gold coins for just a tap on Buy. Your child wants the golden puppy very badly. But Buy means Papa's money, and the rule is that no buying happens without asking. Your child walks to Papa with the tablet. Papa looks. 'That is real money, four hundred rupees. Good that you asked.' They agree that Your child can earn the puppy by playing the free levels. It takes a week. The puppy is worth it.
Lesson: Buy on a screen is real money in Papa's pocket
Online SafetyYour child and the Friend From the Game
↗ Your child's classmate Sahil is excited. A player he met in a game says he is also nine and wants to meet at the colony park at five, alone. Sahil asks Your child to come as backup. Your child feels a cold worry. 'Sahil, we do not know if he is really nine. Let us tell your Papa.' Sahil is annoyed, but they go. Sahil's Papa goes to the park himself at five. Nobody nine years old is there. Sahil says thank you, quietly, the next day.
Lesson: You cannot see who is behind a screen, so tell a grown-up before you go
Online SafetyYour child and the Pop-up at Papa's Shop
↗ At Papa's mobile shop in the market, Your child is helping at the counter when a big pop-up appears on the demo phone. 'Congratulations! You have won a new phone, claim in sixty seconds!' A customer aunty gasps and reaches for it. Your child says, 'Aunty, wait, it is a trick pop-up. Nobody gives phones for free, Papa says so every day.' Papa nods from the back. The aunty laughs and pats Your child's head. 'Shop is in safe hands.'
Lesson: Free phone in sixty seconds means a trick in sixty seconds
Online SafetyYour child and Ria's Photo
↗ At the picnic, Your child takes a funny photo of Ria with a jalebi stuck to her nose and it is the best photo of the day. Your child wants to post it on the family account. Then Your child thinks about how it would feel to be the one with the jalebi. Your child shows Ria first. 'Can I post this?' Ria squeals, 'No way!' So it stays in the phone. Ria picks a different one, the two of them on the swing, and that one goes up.
Lesson: Ask before you post someone else's face
Online SafetyYour child and the Party With No Phones
↗ At Dev's birthday party, ten children are sitting on the sofa looking at ten screens, and the birthday boy is standing alone by the cake. Your child looks up. This is not a party. Your child switches the tablet off, puts it in the basket by the door, and says, 'Who wants to play chor-police in the garden?' Dev's face lights up. One by one the screens go into the basket. The garden is loud for an hour, and the cake tastes better afterwards.
Lesson: A party is the people, not the screens
Online SafetyYour child and the Unknown Video Call
↗ Amma's phone rings with a video call from a number nobody knows, while Amma is in the bath. Your child is allowed to answer calls from Nani, Mausi and Papa. This is none of them. The phone rings and rings. Your child does not answer, does not turn on the camera, and carries the phone to the bathroom door. 'Amma, unknown video call.' Amma calls back through the door, 'Let it ring, beta.' It stops. Amma comes out and says Your child did everything right.
Lesson: Unknown video calls can ring, you do not have to answer
Online SafetyCyber Safety & Ethics
↗ The internet is full of wonders—and a few hidden traps. As Your child explores apps, messages, and games, a wise guide helps spot scams, protect passwords, and make honest choices online. Through clever puzzles and real situations, Your child learns that staying safe and doing the right thing on screens is a superpower worth mastering.
Lesson: Digital safety is a skill that can be learned and practiced, ethical choices online are real choices with real consequences, protecting yourself enables you to help protect others, and technology requires responsibility alongside capability.
Online SafetyScreen Time Balance Quest
↗ A tablet dragon keeps asking for one more minute, so Your child follows a balance map through play, rest, reading, and outdoor time. The dragon learns too: screens are most fun when they have healthy boundaries. The story should turn technology into a helpful tool that needs wise choices. Your child faces a playful digital problem, sets a boundary, and uses curiosity without losing kindness or balance. The ending should show that the smartest hero is not controlled by screens, gadgets, or shortcuts.
Lesson: Healthy boundaries help technology stay useful, fun, and balanced.