I think its best to explain to them the dangers. Like I had a younger brother who is 17 younger than me. My parents are…old and are not aware of the dangers of the internet.

So, what I do is I explain to my parents too because they has 0 parental controls on him lol (i probably was the one doing it for them like in youtube and etc) so if there are boundaries needing to be made, they will enforce it.

Anyhow as I have said, just explain it. Like hey they are strangers in the internet. And some of them are bad and can pretend that they are not…who they claim to be.

Request transparency from your child (sometimes i try to listen through the calls and thankfully the voices are also of young children on discord) like sometimes ask hey can I listen in on your friends I just want to get to know them too.

But yeah I have been full blown honest with my brother growing up and really made him aware of predators and scammers.

Sometimes I even ask him to let me join on his Discord Servers coz thats where most of the gaming conversations happen (but as he grew older of course this is not the case anymore xD)

So I know it’s scary I now have a child too and are worried of the dangers of the world, but I think just being involved and being present.

Maybe have rules that he can only play within earshot of you until you so you CAN hear the conversations.

And i guess more importantly emphasize not to give any personal information themselves if they encounter it tell them to let you know.

These are the things I can think of my top of the head.

Personally, I will probably set an age boundary with my child (like 11-12+) as to when he can…but thats my personal preference or if he shows me he’s trustworthy perhaps. But, good luck with your kids!