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Originally Posted by Dezzy
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Oh well, it had the benefit of reminding parents to be more vigilant of their children's activity online, I suppose.
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From a quick glance at the primary school Facebook page though, the reaction is (predictably) WAY over the top with screeching parents ranting "That's it! No more technology in MY house!!" and banning basically everything. The poor kids will be sat with a tin can and a piece of string. I mean, you can say "well good kids should be playing out together more" but these are the same parents who won't let their 11 year old out of the garden alone... Poor little Bob and Sally will be locked in their room with a board game.
Supervision with little children is important but as they get older I so firmly believe that it becomes about mutual respect, open dialogue and communication. Not giving them any reason to believe that they'd ever have to "hide something" because that's when the really risky stuff happens. If a kid "isn't allowed on tech" or "isn't allowed on tech unsupervised", when they inevitably
find a way to do it anyway... If some weirdo tries to talk to them or threatens them of course they're not going to tell an adult because they know they weren't supposed to be doing it. If they're actually ALLOWED to be exploring and experimenting, when something ****ing weird happens they'll openly be like "Err mum, dad, Wtf is this??"
I mean I have literally zero concerns about my eldest because she tells us everything. She over shares if anything. We get an all day long narrative of every single thing that happens in her life, its currently inconceivable that she wouldn't be BURSTING to tell us about the "OMG weird thing on YouTube!!" and I hope at least SOME of that translates over to her teens. Because you have to let 'em go out there into the world eventually
. I'd rather she goes prepped, pragmatic and knowing that she can ask advice about anything than being thrown in at the deep end after being "protected" for years, and looking to rebel and hide things.