Bridging the digital divide among children is essential to end deprivation and barriers in accessing the internet for children for equitable access to information and knowledge. Ensuring the digital safety of children while facilitating digital access is of paramount importance to protect them from all harms that may be committed against them online. Regulatory norms play a crucial role in making the internet safer for children through deterrent action, but parental guidance and digital literacy and responsibility taught in schools can help them navigate the digital world safely. Assam Police hosting “Infantia – India’s First National Dialogue on Children’s Rights on the Internet” is a laudable and timely initiative to remind us of the role parents, schools and society as a whole need to play to make the digital world safer for children. The draft Rules of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, published in January, proposing that children below 18 years of age will now need verifiable parental consent to open social media accounts, is a significant step towards regulating access of children without parental guidance. There are technical issues of privacy for parents who have their own accounts when they submit their information for filling out the online consent form for their children opening social media accounts, which will require more clarity. Nevertheless, there is a need for legal provisions to hold the social media platform companies and internet service providers liable if minors access the internet without parental consent. Mere parental consent in opening the social media accounts alone is not going to address the vulnerability of children on digital platforms. If the parents fail to constantly guide their children to safely navigate the internet to acquire knowledge and information to benefit from it, then acquiring parental consent is not going to help achieve the objective. An alarming rise in addiction to online gaming and fantasy sports among children in India speaks volumes about the problem of a lack of parental guidance for children accessing the internet using any digital device. This is also indicative of the advisories issued by the Ministry of Education for parents and teachers on “Overcoming online gaming downsides” and “Children’s safe online gaming” still not reaching a large section of parents. The advisory on safe online gaming recommends to parents not to allow in-game purchases without parental consent; avoid in-app purchases; adopt One Time Password-based payment methods in accordance with the Reserve Bank of India’s guidelines; avoid credit/debit card registration on apps for subscriptions; place an upper limit on expenditure per transaction; not let children buy directly from the laptop or mobile they use for gaming; and advise them against engaging in games for long hours without taking a break, considering health aspects and addiction. It also advises parents to help their child understand that some features in online games are used to encourage more play and spending; explain to them about gambling, what it is and its consequences both online and in the physical world; and always ensure that the child accesses the internet from a computer placed in the family space. Other key recommendations in the advisory which parents and teachers are required to be reminded periodically are: keeping their eyes open for unusually secretive behaviour of the children, mostly related to their online activity; a sudden increase in the time they spend online, especially social media; when they seem to change screens on their device when approached; when they become withdrawn or angry, after using the internet or sending text messages and their device suddenly has many new phone numbers ·and email contacts; parents installing internet gateway at home which has features like monitoring, logging and controlling the types of content that the children can access, teachers need to keep an eye on falling grades and social behaviour of the students and when they observe something that may seem suspicious or alarming, they should inform the school authorities immediately and sensitising children about the pros and cons of the internet from time to time. The government will be able to take legal action against violations of the Acts and Rules meant to protect children’s rights on the internet only when parents and teachers play their part in keeping an eye on how the children are using it and seek the help of law enforcement agencies if anyone is abusing the internet to harm the children. Assam Director General of Police Harmeet Singh, while delivering the keynote address at the national conclave, gave parents the most important piece of advice: parents need to monitor the use of the internet by children, not intrude in their lives, and communicate with their children so that they can share if they are facing any trouble while using the internet. It is high time the parents wake up to the challenges of digital safety for children and learn the basics of digital parenting.