Bullying won't go away if we do nothing! But it can if you do something. It's up to all of us to create and shape the on-line spaces that we like to spend our time in. Stand-up to cyberbullying by visiting our site watchyourspace.ie and posting your response.

Safer Internet Day 2013, an EU wide initiative to promote a safer Internet for all users, especially young people, will be celebrated in Ireland on Tuesday 5th February 2013. This year, Safer Internet Day, which is promoted in Ireland by the PDST Technology in Education and Webwise.ie, is urging all net users to “Connect with Respect”.

Safer Internet Day 2012, an EU wide initiative to promote a safer Internet for all users, especially young people, will be celebrated in Ireland on Tuesday 7th February 2012. This year, Safer Internet Day, which is promoted in Ireland by the National Centre for Technology in Education NCTE), is urging families to get ‘webwise’ and to ‘discover the digital world together...safely!’.

Safer Internet Day (SID) will be celebrated around the world on Tuesday 7th February. Webwise, the Safer Internet Ireland Awareness Centre has arranged a number of events to mark the day. Webwise and the NCTE work with partners in Ireland and the 27 Safer Internet Centres of the European Union’s Insafe Network to celebrate SID. See how you and your child or school can join in the celebrations at webwise.ie

This is a call to action for parents to get involved in what their children are doing online from Webwise, Ireland's home for internet safety advice and tools.

In this clip an experienced parent discusses her experience of implementing the National Parents Council's advice on negotiating boundaries and communicating with children about their use of the internet.

Parenting expert, Áine Lynch from the National Parents Council, talks about the importance of having good, open communication with your child about their internet lives and provides some practical advice on how to achieve this.

This clip shows children in Ireland between the ages of 8 and 12 years talking about what they do online.

Parenting expert, Áine Lynch from the National Parents Council, discusses the benefits and practicalities for setting rules and boundaries for your child's internet usage.

This short clip shows you how to enable YouTube's safety mode. YouTube is one of the most popular websites with children in Ireland. You can very easily switch on the safety mode that blocks access to adult content on this site.

In this presentation at an Insafe regional conference in Dublin in 2009, dutch academic Hubb Nils outlines how recent advances in our understanding of how teenagers' brains work can explain some of their risk taking and poor decision making online.

This short clip from webwise demonstrates how to enable Google's safe search mode. If you are a parent and your children are using the intenret, you should do this. It is free, it's easy to switch on and only takes about a minute, and it is actually pretty effective.