PARENTING AND DIGITAL DEVICES - extracts from the iBook ‘Keeping Your Child Safe in the Online Jungle” by Shaun Brooker, Principal of Hamilton Christian School.

Parenting can be difficult at the best of times. Times are changing and as we all know, so is technology. We want to keep our children safe, while reducing the burden and pressure these devices can create in the family home. However, some of us don’t know where to start. Here are a few tips to help empower you to make meaningful decisions about your child’s technology use at home. Watch for further tips in future newsletters

The Internet is Like a BIG City!

As parents, it can be helpful to think of the internet as a giant new city that you have never visited before. If you were to visit that city it is unlikely that you would leave your young child on their own late at night. You would want to stay with them and maybe let them loose in one shop at a time and would give them a safety spot to meet you if they did not feel safe.

Once your child understood the layout of the city and where they could go that was safe, you would likely give them a bit more freedom.

‘Keeping Your Child Safe in the Online Jungle’ can be downloaded from itunes.