UNICEF South Africa released a study that 70% of children surveyed use the Internet without parental consent. “The Disrupting Harm Study released in 2022 showed that 70% of children surveyed in South Africa use the Internet without parental consent and risky online behaviour can expose them to online violence, exploitation, and abuse. The online world is also increasingly intertwined with everyday life offline.” Having an open relationship with your child’s online behaviour has been identified as a core pillar to protecting them when they go online.
As parents, we can monitor their activity, we do have eyes at the back of our heads. We can implement child-friendly browsers on our devices, and we can even set an alarm clock to stop their time online and set boundaries. All of these are great and should be done to protect your child when they go online.
Thanks to many hours of global best practice research and 20 years of digital and parenting experience, this program was designed to protect their own child and others like him.
Social Kids is dedicated to educating children to self-regulate, self-recognise, communicate, and educate parents on how to manage this maze of information. The parental guides have been designed in a way that makes it easy to navigate, and we’ve collated global best practices and professional advice, to give parents a concise summary of how to protect their children and keep the conversations going well into their teens.
Twenty minutes a week, with your child over 5 weeks, is all it will take. If you don’t have the time Miss Nadie and Codey have dedicated jump in and out supervised online classes every day of the week, to help you out when things get busy. Can you afford not to start the conversations now, while they will still want to listen to you?
Register today.
lurk online. Join Codey Crawler as he helps to guide our children through the digital world
they play and learn in. Codey will give children aged 7 to 11 years old the confidence and
guidance to surf the net, know their rights and handle uncomfortable situations before their tweens. Register today and have access to 5 pre-recorded adventures that tackle cyberbullying, being SMART online and spotting fake news, to name a few. Detailed parental guides are shared to help Mom and Dad make the right decisions. Children will need to complete
activities to have a global surfer badge and certificate.
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