Child Online Safety Collaboration
Why I'm Joining Forces With Cybersecurity Parents
Something I have said many times before whilst doing this work.
No one person can do this alone.
I’ve said it to parents and teachers. I’ve said it in presentations, in conversations and in the quiet moments after someone’s told me something that’s broken their heart a little.
So when I started talking properly with Chad and Kae, the people behind Cybersecurity Parents, it felt less like a collaboration and more like a recognition of that fact. Two teams, different sides of the Atlantic, fighting the same battle. The threats we encounter don’t have a postcode. They don’t care whether your child is in Leeds or Los Angeles. The dark corners of the internet look the same from both directions.
Who Are Chad and Kae?
Chad Rychlewski and Kae David are the founders of Cybersecurity Parents LLC, a mission-driven organisation built around one simple idea, that families deserve the knowledge and tools to navigate the digital world safely.
What I like about them, straight away, is that they are practitioners. Not academics, not commentators. But people with 30 years of combined experience in cybersecurity between them, who decided that the knowledge they had was too important to stay inside corporate boardrooms. That might sound familiar to people who have followed me for a while.
They’ve gon a step further than me and channelled all of that into a book. Cyber-Smart Parenting: Protecting Your Child in the Digital Age. Before I say anything else about it, I want to be clear, I bought this book, nobody sent me a copy and nobody asked me to review it. I read it because I wanted to, and now I’m recommending it to you because it’s good.
What Makes the Book Worth Your Time
The thing I always look for in any child safety resource is whether it speaks to parents and not at them. Whether it treats the person reading as an adult who is already doing their best and just needs some practical help, not a lecture.
Cyber-Smart Parenting does that. The tone is direct and warm at the same time, which is genuinely difficult to pull off, I should know, as I spend a lot of time trying to. The advice is age-specific, which matters a great deal because the risks facing a nine-year-old are completely different from those facing a fifteen-year-old. Also, because Chad and Kae come from a technical background, the explanations are accurate, not dumbed down or dramatised.
If you’ve ever tried to explain to a parent why their child’s privacy settings matter, you’ll know how hard it is to be both precise and accessible. This book actually manages it.1
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Why Collaboration Matters in This Space
I spent years inside the evidence of what happens when children are failed online. That experience has shaped everything I do now, it also taught me something important, the problem is too big for any single person, any single organisation, or any single country to solve.
We all bring something different to the party. Chad and Kae bring deep technical expertise and a book that gives parents a tangible starting point. I bring the investigative background, the guides, the school’s resources and the UK context. Together, we cover more ground and that’s the point.
Over the coming weeks, you’ll see some of that collaboration come to life, including some reels their team are producing to highlight the CSG guides. It’s practical, it’s purposeful, and honestly, it’s the kind of thing that makes this work continue to feel worthwhile.
What I’m Asking You to Do
Three things.
First, grab a copy of the book. Whether you’re a parent, a teacher, or someone working in safeguarding, it belongs on your shelf and you can find it here in the UK, or here if you are in the US.
Second, follow Cybersecurity Parents. They’re on Instagram and LinkedIn. Good people doing great work, they deserve your attention.
Third, keep the conversations going at home, with your children, without judgement. That is always, always the most important thing!
As always, thank you for your support. Please share this across your social media, and if you do have any comments, questions, or concerns, then feel free to reach out to me via the Social page, as I am always happy to spend some time helping to protect children online.
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Cyber-Smart Parenting: Protecting Your Child in the Digital Age, Chad Rychlewski and Kae David, Cybersecurity Parents LLC. Available at https://amzn.eu/d/0cVmM0wk (accessed May 2026). Personal purchase and recommendation. No payment or incentive received. Or via the following QR code via their website.
Thank you for turning me on to more people working on this field!