Mobile phone safety tips for children
"Mobile phones provide security and contact for your child but it is important to teach your child about phone safety."
Mobile phones provide security and contact for your child but it is important to teach your child about phone safety. But giving your child a mobile phone isn't without its risks.
Fortunately, there are ways that you can safeguard your children, and monitor their mobile use:
Teach Responsibility
Make sure your child understands a cell phone is not a toy. Explain the fees associated with text messages, data use, games, apps, and sharing photos.
It's a good opportunity to learn a lesson about budgeting. If his phone has extra features, set limits.
Know what cyberbullying looks like
Unfortunately, cyberbullying remains a substantial problem.
Your child should know what constitutes cyberbullying and what the consequences are, both for the perpetrator and the victim.
Teach your child against engaging in bullying behavior on their phone, and make sure they know that they should come straight to you if they observe cyberbullying, whether they are the victim or someone else is.
Don't share private information
It's amazing how easily content and information can be shared and spread using cell phones.
To prevent your child from falling victim to this phenomenon, teach them not to send personal information using their phone or to use their device to post it on social media if their phone is Internet-capable.
Your child should also not share their cell phone number with those they don't know well.
Your child should know not to say or share anything inappropriate using their phone, especially anything rude or sexual in nature.
Keep it safe
Your child should know not only how to keep themself safe, but how to keep their phone safe.
After all, their phones are useless to help them stay safe if they are broken or stolen.
Give your child a protective case for their phone to prevent damage, and instruct them only to use their phone discreetly and only to have it out when they are using it so that it is less likely to be lost or stolen.
Follow the rules
Be sure that your rules and expectations for cell phone use are clear to your child.
This way, they will know exactly what they are supposed to do to stay safe and can be held accountable if they fail to take those steps.
Consider establishing punishments for failing to follow the rules, such as taking your child's phone for a few days.
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