This precipitous push into the social media deep end for my kids may seem relatively minor against the sweep of the pandemic. But for parents who did not expect to allow their children to have devices or use social media for many years, it is troubling. Do we consign our children to the social media flames and hope for the best? Long before the pandemic touched our shores, he’d advocated introducing digital and social media — which have become integral to modern society — to children earlier than traditionally advised (many social media platforms set 13 as the age when kids can open accounts). Foster Digital LiteracyAnother way to raise conscious media users is to encourage kids to create with digital tools, Radesky said.

Source: bd News24 December 26, 2020 05:03 UTC