Digital Safety
Did you know that 65% of children age 8-12 are aware and okay with their parents monitoring their smartphone? It’s all about communicating early!
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Talking to your child about digital safety can seem like a daunting task – especially if they have more tech know-how than you! But with our straightforward, straight-talking guide, you’ll be equipped to tackle the conversation with confidence.
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Growing up in the digital age provides unlimited opportunities for students to connect, learn and share information. While this has many benefits, families can feel overwhelmed as they navigate the new challenges associated with raising technologically savvy kids.
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Today’s fast-paced world provides kids with an increasing number of digital tools at their fingertips – both in school and at home. As a parent, it’s important to make digital safety a priority in your home and ensure that your children know how to act safely, responsibly, and thoughtfully digital.
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Knowing how to act responsibly online is a core component of being a good digital citizen. This section tackles the fundamentals of appropriate digital behavior, including cyberbullying and creating suitable content for online use.
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Next time your child is online, show an interest in their favorite apps and sites. Take a look through them together. Chat about any potential problems you spot, such as cyberbullying, sharing private info like passwords and phone numbers, or people pretending to be someone else. Ask your child how they’d react in each instance. Show faith in their judgment, but offer advice and guidance where necessary, such as how to report unpleasant behavior. Remind your child that you’re always there to help, if they’re ever unsure. This is also a good time to establish ground rules.
Decide a daily time limit for online use – and set an example yourself! Also agree upon app and in-app purchases. Finally, because the internet is ultimately a fun place, end your chat on a positive note by playing an app together.
Digital Addictions
Digital Addict is used to refer to a person who compulsively uses digital technology, which would manifest as another form of addiction if that technology was not as easily accessible to them. Colloquially, it can be used to describe a person whose interaction with technology.
Pornography
Porn is the abbreviation for pornography, which is sexual material that is explicitly portrayed for the primary purpose of sexual arousal. Sexually explicit material can be presented in a variety of ways, including magazines, photographs, films, writings, sculptures.
Screen Time
Wouldn’t you like to better manage the time your kids spend on their tablets and smartphones? Did you know children spend an average of 40 hours a week on digital devices? Smartphones are something of a miracle technology, capable of doing a lot more.
Social Media
Social Media Addiction is not a formal clinical diagnosis, it is fair to say that many people spend far too much time on social media and may at the very least describe themselves as being “obsessed”, if not addicted. In recent years the mental health community.
Video Games
In 2018, the World Health Organization plans to add “gaming disorder” – characterized by a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behavior – to its list of mental health conditions. The WHO’s impending beta draft for the next ICD classifies gaming disorder.
Digital Safety
Growing up in the digital age provides unlimited opportunities for students to connect, learn and share information. While this has many benefits, families can feel overwhelmed as they navigate the new challenges associated with raising technologically savvy kids.