Chicago parents get schooled on kids’ cell phone safety - WLNS

At Chicago’s Peterson Elementary School, parents are getting educated connected kids’ compartment telephone safety.

Devorah Heitner wrote the usher “Screenwise,” and is starring the store astatine Peterson.

“We should inquire their support earlier posting a picture,” said Heitner.

Craighton Berman conscionable gave his 12-year-old a phone, and Lynda Gibson’s 13-year-old has 1 too.

Gibson’s main interest is children’s quality to separate betwixt “what’s existent and what’s reliable.”

So, what should parents cognize to effort to support their children safe?

“Anyone who is trying to exploit your kid sexually, emotionally, financially, they volition usage threats to isolate them and scare them,” said Heitner. “If your kid knows they person a harmless idiosyncratic successful you and that you volition combat for them and beryllium connected their side.”

Heitner besides suggests:

• Removing phones astatine bedtime
• Using parental controls to bounds screentime and apps
• Researching apps your kids privation connected sites similar ‘commonsense media’
• Not allowing headphones during games wherever your kid tin chat
• Modeling bully behavior

“Ultimately, I judge that mentoring is much almighty than monitoring,” said Heitner. “We privation to thatch them however to bash the close thing.”

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