Every week e-safety adviser Alan Mackenzie sends me weekly updates. They are useful teaching resources but also parent guides to keep you up to date with current trends.
Here is this week’s tip:
Is Your Child Prepared for their First Phone?
It’s a question that so many parents struggle with, balancing the positives, the negatives, the need, cost and so much more. The problem with such a question is that there is no one-size-fits-all answer.
Darren Laur has written a really useful article for parents, within the article he uses the acronym PREPARED which takes away the complexity and allows parents to make decisions based on their own circumstances.:
P – Purpose.
R – Responsibility.
E – Empathy and respect.
P – Perception of risk.
A – Adaptability and resilience.
R – Regulation.
E – Executive functioning.
D – Digital discernment.
The article is a really good read.
