How can parents balance children’s screen time and online safety?

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With growing concerns over children’s screen time and online safety, we ask parents how they strike the right balance between freedom and protection in the digital age.

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00:00That's a tough question. Everybody's different, aren't they?

00:05Some people don't give their kids phones or tablets, etc.

00:09Others will, for that peace and quiet sometimes.

00:13But I think it's just a case of there's a lot out there now

00:16where you can obviously put security and privacy on whatever device you're using.

00:20Just having a phone for a kid that they can call you on

00:25and maybe introducing them to social media yourself,

00:28explaining the concepts, what might happen, stuff like that.

00:33You know how you have sex ed? Maybe you can just have social media ed or something.

00:40Either you're completely laissez-faire and say what will happen will happen

00:44and they need to learn from their own mistakes.

00:47But considering the consequences of some of these mistakes,

00:51I would personally go for a degree of monitoring.

00:55I think it's the only way and parental education are the best ways to protect.

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