TIP SHEET - HELPING YOUNG KIDS GET A HEALTHY START WITH DEVICES

Very young kids should spend as little time with Just like you talk to your kids about their friends and screens and devices as possible. [...] ©MEDIASMARTS 2024 www.mediasmarts.ca HELPING YOUNG KIDS GET A HEALTHY START WITH DEVICES • It’s better to talk to your kids, to set rules and Help them choose good apps and games. [...] too many can backfire.” So instead of being all about ca/sites/default/files/pdfs/tipsheet/TipSheet_How_ punishment, rules should be a way to share your Search_Internet_Effectively.pdf.) values and to give kids guidance about how to deal When you and your kids are choosing apps or games, with online issues. [...] Search for their family centre – you can usually just This is a good time to model the things you’ll want search for the name of the game or site and the them to do when they start using social media, like phrase “family centre” – so you can find out how to respecting privacy and consent. [...] You can use browser let’s get back to where we were.” plugins and apps like Privacy Badger, DuckDuckGo and Blokada to reduce how many ads they see, but you should also point out when you see ads on their screens and explain how you recognized them.