Facebook: what not to do parents
'27.04.2017'
Conversations about behavior in social networks should become as essential element in raising a child, as well as stories about animals or explaining the rules of the game of baseball. Your children should be aware of the fact that you can lay out on public display, and that no. Explain to children how to behave with friends on social networks. The rules are very diverse and depend on the age of your child, his personal characteristics and emotional development. In addition to the rules for the child, there are also rules for parents.
Rule 1. Do not prohibit your child to register on Facebook.
It may not seem like a great idea to you, but be sure that if you forbid it to be done under your supervision from a home computer, the child will do it from a computer in a library, at school or from a computer of his friends. And then your teenager will have an account, but you will not know about it.
Many social networks have set a condition - registration only after 13 years, but I do not think that 11-year-old and 12-year-old teenager will stop it. Your task is to make this process under your control.
Rule 2. Do not put your children in an uncomfortable position.
Any parent has mastered this science quite professionally. And adolescents are known to be especially vulnerable. And before you have time to write some utter nonsense on your blog, your child will remove you from friends. If your child has entered a wonderful adolescence, do not try to upload photos of how your sweet little baby sleeps in an embrace with a teddy bear. He will not forgive you for this, and also for subsequent ridicule from friends.
Do not write on your children’s wall anything that can embarrass them. Before you do something like that, always ask. Many children even protest against likes and comments. And do not read their personal correspondence.
Rule 3. Do not add children to your friend lists.
Friends of your child, children of your friends, neighbour's children, children of relatives - all this is prohibited. Do not accept requests from them and do not send requests to them. No matter how much you want to know all the friends of your child, you should not do this. Exceptions can make only very close friends who themselves will send you their request. And even in this case - think carefully. In addition to being able to read their pages, they will be able to read yours. And write on your wall. And comment. Even your pictures about sex or alcohol. Therefore - think twice.
Rule 4. Do not criticize.
A very bad idea to criticize a child’s actions on Facebook. His wall, his account - his personal space. Strange quotation, picture, incomprehensible to you photo - does not matter. If something excited you, discuss it calmly, in reality. My daughter as an avatar put a strange photo of a girl - EMO. I had to talk and find out the reason for this choice. It turns out that she just liked the picture. She never even heard about EMO.
Rule 5. Facebook is just the beginning.
Looking after your baby on Facebook is not difficult. Facebook is a fairly serious platform where it is forbidden to post obscene photos. It is quite a suitable place to learn all the intricacies of communication on the Internet. Once kids get interested in other platforms like Tumblr, there will be more reasons to be excited. There are no restrictions on content and there is no way to close the profile from everyone except relatives and friends.
Explain to the child who such stalkers are, what danger may lie in wait for beautiful accounts of fictional people, and that it is impossible to agree to meet with strangers from the Internet, as well as to tell them personal information.
