Whether we like it or not, the further we go, the more our lives include a virtual component. Communication, correspondence, information search, payment for services - all via the Internet. And the younger a person is, the more time they spend in the virtual world. Mother and writer Evgenia Pasternak talks about what a child who goes online needs to know and be able to do.

Technology is developing so fast that the generation does not have time to change, but everything is already different. And the difficulty of today's situation is that adults have stopped being wise and knowledgeable. We just figured out ICQ, and it's already hopelessly outdated, Skype, Viber, WhatsApp have already flown by, and, for sure, something else is already being thought up right now.

Parents are the last people a teenager will come to with a question about a gadget.

His parents are the last people he will tell about the problems with communicating on the Internet. Meanwhile, in virtual life, as in real life, there are dangers. We adults teach young children how to cross the road correctly and not open the door to strangers, and, in theory, we adults should teach children how to safely exist on the Internet. But we can't. Because we are not keeping up with the development of this very Internet.

What to do? There is only one recipe.

Keep up to date. Develop in parallel with the child, see what programs he uses. Do not leave a small child alone with a computer, tell, show, explain. After a certain age, you are not able to prohibit the use of the Internet, you are not able to limit the content that your child watches. But you can prepare him for what he might encounter online.

I recently saw a survey of men, they indicated the age at which they first watched porn videos - 10 years old. Fifth grade. You can't make sure that your child doesn't see these videos. But you can change his attitude towards them. Make sure that they don't become a model of behavior and a guide to action. Or at least they won't become a psychological trauma.

Please do not compare your childhood with the childhood of modern children.

Don't say that "my parents didn't tell me about it, and I grew up." In our childhood, it was impossible to see porn by accident. Yes, the older boys in the yard showed muddy pictures, and as students we rented cassettes. But by chance, a ten-year-old child just couldn't watch a porn video. It could be easy now.

Forewarned means armed

Information security, in my opinion, consists of two large sections:

1. Information hygiene (who to communicate with, how to communicate, personal space and non-disclosure of personal data)

2. Working with information

The second point cannot be dealt with quickly, the ability to work with information correctly is an extremely necessary skill, and it is difficult to develop it. If a person grows up in the modern world who believes everything that is written, he is lost. It is necessary to teach to doubt, check, check again, look for primary sources, compare, analyze and think with your own head.

As for the first point, these are quite technical things and it is quite possible to teach a teenager not to make blunders. I really like the contract that students of Australian schools sign every academic year. I would recommend signing a similar agreement with children starting from elementary school. With a detailed analysis of situations, answers to all questions and real-life examples. Yes, this does not guarantee that your child will do all this, just as it does not guarantee that he will always cross the road for a green light. But the risk is reduced.

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