How do you protect your children from inappropriate content?

    • Dear Community

    The digital world is diverse and full of attractive and exciting content for children and young people. Even content that is not suitable for the respective age group. If they are exposed to this too early, it can have negative consequences. The Swisscom Campus explains the connections and shows what you as parents can do to prevent this.

    How do you protect your children? Share your experiences and join the discussion!

    Kind regards

    Tamara

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      Protecting children in this day and age is a huge challenge. Protecting them completely is impossible, we have to be aware of that. I mean, inappropriate content? It starts with TikTok. How was it again recently with the Paracetamol Challenge? You’re supposed to swallow so many tablets until you end up in hospital. I don’t know how disturbed (sorry for the expression) you have to be in the brain to find that somehow cool. No wonder there are always calls for a ban on TikTok or only from the age of 18 and so on. But such bans hardly achieve anything. It is therefore important to sensitise children to this, talk to them about it and make them aware of the dangers. Because as I said, you can’t protect children completely anyway and banning, blocking, restricting everything and permanently monitoring and controlling the child is no solution either.

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        TamaraA

        This is a difficult task for today’s parents. This problem didn’t arise with our children, as they are now 48 and 45 years old and deliberately don’t have children, so they aren’t affected by this problem either.

        If they were of school age, we would try to discuss the whole Internet and its dangers (not just for children) openly with them and explain to them that everything that is free is simply to be paid for in another way (advertising rubbish etc.). I would also set them up with Threema, which is the only messenger we use with our family and many (real) friends. As long as they are not of legal age, I would also install a VPN to protect their devices even better. At the end of the day, bans don’t help, on the contrary, they only make it exciting to circumvent these bans. Explaining, explaining and explaining again in open discussions is the best way to solve these problems.

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