When Your Child Is in Trouble Online, How You React Matters

A parent shares how their daughter’s abusers got around the restrictions on her device. I discuss what happened and why children need to know they can ask their parents for help when something goes wrong online.

I recommend that parents offer their children a free pass: if someone is hurting them, taking advantage of them, or making them uncomfortable, they can tell their parents without getting in trouble. That promise needs a strong relationship behind it. And if they use the free pass, give them another one.

Chapters:

0:00 A parent shares what happened

3:19 Clarifying the Screen Time code

3:52 How parents respond

4:30 A promise backed by a strong relationship

Related conversation with Jason Sokolowski:

https://youtu.be/MmVnmZICzb8

Family IT Guy helps parents protect their kids from the two biggest digital dangers: addictive algorithms and anonymous communication, and the ways AI is making both worse. Ben Gillenwater spent 30 years in cybersecurity, and he teaches this as a parent in the same trenches you are.

iPhone Parental Controls Masterclass:

https://www.familyitguy.com/iphone-masterclass

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