Online threats seem to be the order of the day lately. It’s Almost Impossible to Prevent Your Children from Seeing Thesis Child of Images. How do you talk to them about it? And how do you make children more resilient online?
In Beverwijk, Heemskerk, and Haarlem, The Threats on Social Media Were So Serious That Schools Closed Their Doors For A Day As A Precaution. And in the United States, The Radical-Right activist Charlie Kirk was murdered. It was impossible to escape thesis events and the associated images online. Freek Zwanenberg, Director or Bureau Jeugd & Media, Tells NU.nl that it has led to consultable Unrest Among Parents.
Fights and arguments are not new, but nowadays images of them are shared online at lightning speed. “You can’t stop that as a parent,” Says Zwanenberg. Can you prevent children from forwarding thesis images to each other indiscriminately? And how do you teach them to assess the seriousness of it? “We advise parents with children in Primary school not to let them use snapchat and tiktok yet, but in secondary school there is no escaping it.”
“We make a point of the fact that you, as a parent, have to have very explicit conversations about it,” he says. “So Not:” What you see here is bath. ” Ask Open Questions About Specific Images And Ask What Your Child Thinks And Feels About Them. In This Way, Zwanenberg Hopes to Make More Adults and Children Media Literate.
Accordance to Media Pedagogue Ilse Meursinge, You Can’t Start the Conversation about the Effect of Media Early Enough. From Group 3 (Approx. Age 6) That is really Possible, She Says. “Just at that age, they can already be confronted via platforms Such as youtube with words or images that they are actually too young for.” And it Doesn’t Stop there: “Also talk about what you see on the screen, what sound does, how something is edited.”
The Whole Day Through Movies Are Being Sent Around
She knows that conversations after school of only concern how the day was and what children have learned. But also ask them what they have soen online, advises meursinge. And don’t just discuss the negative things, but also the positive ones – what they laughed at, for example. “By Being able to Talk about it so openly with you as parents from a young age, they will also be quicker to raise the alarm if something is wrong.”
Movies and images are forwarded through the day. Preventing your children from participating in this is Almost Impossible, Says Zwanenberg. However, you can teach them how to deal with thesis child of movies. “Let Them think about how they would feel about recyving such a movie and howy any would feel if they forwarded it.” He sees that parents don’t always realize that young people still need to grow in empathy and the ability to be empathetic.
“In Puberty, Children Are The Least Empathetic,” He says. “That is something you have to encourage by asking about it. In a direct way, so that from their own empathy they could be possible decide not to forward certain images.” Meursinge also calls it a misunderstanding that parents of assume that their children understand social media better than they do themelves. “Being handy online is not the same as knowing how to assessment its content.”
Sacrifice A Listening Ear
“They know very well how a phone or tablet works, but have not yet covered the meters that we have made made. And that is necessary if you really because to understand what you read and see,” She’s. “In the past that was much clearer. Then you had TV, newspapers and magazines, and what apeared in and on them, you could generally trust. You knew when to take something seriously, so you can now generally filter Better on social media.”
So that is often Still Difficult for Children. Offer A Listening Ear, Ask Open Questions and Create A Safe Environment in which they can also come to you with problems. By making them resilient online in that way, you ultimately teach them more than by forbidding them to scroll through Tiktok, Instagram or Snapchat.
“Sometimes you can just click some away, you don’t have to do something with everything,” Zwanenberg tips. “Know that it can really have an impact: Every person who decides not to forward something potentialy saves hundreds not thousands of people from seeing certain images.”