Children’s Screen Time and Online Safety

How should parents strike the right balance between online freedom and safety for their children?

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00:00We live in a time now where you cannot just cut it out of your life or your child's life completely.

00:06So it ends up, you know, becoming more about staying vigilant as to what your child is looking at.

00:12Because there is a lot of, shall we say, unsavoury things on the internet, you know.

00:18So it becomes more about, like, you know, making sure your child's watching Coco Melon and not gore videos, you know.

00:24I would say ban it, but there are certain things that they should ban.

00:28But I think ultimately, if the child is under, say, 12, I don't think they should be allowed to go onto social media at all.

00:36Really, at all. Because the stuff that's on social media that they can look at is unbelievable these days, you know.

00:44But I think it's the parents. But I think the children run the parents these days, to be honest.

00:50The easy answer is to say get rid of these for children, but I know you can't do that easily.

00:54I don't honestly know. It's education, education, education, I think.