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Advice For Parents

TIPS FOR PARENTS

THE WORLD IS RAPIDLY CHANGING – EMBRACE THE CHANGE!

Digital technology and the internet now play a huge part in all of our lives – especially our children’s. For the most part, school, work and social lives are now all successfully integrated with the internet, offering opportunities that we could have only dreamed of a few years ago – with our children at the forefront of this exciting age of change. Try and embrace the change by seeing it as an adventure rather than a challenge!

LEARN WITH YOUR CHILD

If we are to help our children reach their full personal and academic potential in this new technological era, then we must learn with them on how to use the internet responsibly and safely. Your children might even be able to teach you a thing or two!

STAY A STEP AHEAD OF YOUR CHILDREN

This can be a challenge for many parents who are unfamiliar with the technical devices, websites and social media platforms that their children visit. This parents guide will help you to understand the dangers posed to children online and how to deal with them together as a family.

DON’T BE AFRAID TO ASK FOR HELP!

There are plenty of resources for parents and lots of people who want to help out – you just need to find them! Sign up to the Cybersmile Support Community to access our community threads – ask and answer questions with the help of other parents, young people and trained Cybersmile advisors. Share your experiences – a problem shared is a problem halved!

COMMUNICATION IS KEY

It is vital that your child or children can come to you with their online problems, and communicate freely without the fear of losing internet privileges, such as the closing of their social media accounts or confiscating devices such as mobile phones or laptops. If you can build a relationship with your child/children, where they feel comfortable sharing their online problems with you, it is much more likely that you will be able to help them with any online problems that do occur in the future – before they escalate to the point where your child/children cannot see a way out of the situation.