Parental mediation in children's use of websites and its relationship to enhancing their digital citizenship culture

The study aimed to reveal the relationship between parents' practice of parental mediation patterns while their children use websites and the promotion of a culture of digital citizenship among children. And measuring the level of media education skills for children using websites. With defining the levels and patterns of parental mediation that parents resort to. Monitoring the dimensions of digital citizenship achieved among children, by applying to the study sample consisting of (424) children, and the study relied on the digital education approach, and to achieve the goal of the descriptive study, scales were built, and statistical treatments were carried out.The general results indicated that the majority of children were keen to use websites at a high level, especially social networking sites, and also found that there are no differences between rural and urban residents in the use of these websites. The results showed a high level of children's acquisition of digital media literacy skills. The results showed high levels of parental mediation that parents resorted to while their children used the websites. The results showed that children's digital citizenship levels increased as a result of parental mediation