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Tips for Parents: Boosting Children's Digital Literacy

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Foundations of Digital Literacy at Home

Create a Family Tech Mission Statement

Gather around the table and draft a simple mission: why your family uses technology and how it should feel. Keep it positive, visible, and practical. Share your mission in the comments to inspire other parents today.

Model the Behaviors You Want

Children mirror what they see. Narrate your decisions: explain why you verified an article, ignored a clickbait headline, or paused notifications during dinner. Invite your child to ask questions and celebrate thoughtful choices together.

Build a Balanced Media Diet

Blend consuming, creating, and connecting. Pair videos with making something, like coding a tiny game or drawing a storyboard. Track balance on a whiteboard. Subscribe for weekly ideas that spark creative screen time without overwhelm.

Critical Thinking and Information Evaluation

Turn dubious posts into teachable moments. Ask, who made this, what’s the evidence, and what might be missing? Share a funny example you debunked this week, so other families learn new strategies with your story.
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Privacy, Safety, and Digital Footprints

Make memorable passphrases from silly sentences and add numbers and symbols. Use a trusted password manager. Tell a short anecdote about a time a strong passphrase saved the day, and ask your child to craft one for a favorite site.

Privacy, Safety, and Digital Footprints

Explore app settings together and find toggles for location, visibility, and comments. Treat each discovery like a badge earned. Post your top three surprising settings in the discussion to help other parents tighten controls easily.

Privacy, Safety, and Digital Footprints

Explain that posts, photos, and likes can travel and linger. Share a gentle story about an old photo resurfacing, then discuss consent before sharing. Invite kids to create a ‘think before posting’ checklist and share your version with us.

Practice the Pause Button

Teach a simple routine: breathe, reread, revise. Draft messages in notes before sending. Role-model apologizing when mistakes happen. Comment with a phrase your family uses to cool down and reset during heated digital conversations.

Empathy in Comments and Chats

Ask children to imagine the person behind the screen. Encourage specific, kind feedback and questions instead of quick judgments. Start a kindness streak in your household, and share your favorite prompts to keep the streak alive.

Role-Play Tricky Scenarios

Act out situations: a friend oversharing, a stranger asking for details, or a joke that hurts feelings. Switch roles and debrief. Subscribe for monthly scenario cards you can print and use around the dinner table.

Creativity and Making, Not Just Consuming

Choose a consistent hour for creation: coding sprites, remixing music loops, or scripting a mini podcast. Celebrate progress, not perfection. Share your child’s latest creation and the tool they loved so we can spotlight inspiring projects.

Creativity and Making, Not Just Consuming

Pick a fun theme—solve a household problem or redesign a board game with digital twists. Timebox, prototype, and demo. Take photos of sticky notes and sketches. Post your theme ideas to help other families start their first hackathon.

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