{"id":11353,"date":"2019-02-13T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/screentimelabs.com\/?p=9617"},"modified":"2022-03-18T05:10:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T05:10:24","slug":"good-parenting-is-the-number-one-internet-safety-tool-for-kids-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screentimelabs.com\/blog\/good-parenting-is-the-number-one-internet-safety-tool-for-kids-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Parenting Is the Number One Internet Safety 'Tool' for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Why Parenting Matters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

Any parent knows kids follow their lead, for good and for bad. Kids will, consciously or not, imitate their parents as a fallback for every kind of situation, from dealing with confrontation to picking what they eat for lunch. Furthermore, parents set and enforce the rules from which kids learn.<\/p>\n\n\n

Of course, this doesn’t mean kids are clones of us. Kids will push back against rules they think are arbitrary and can choose whether their parents are a positive example or a negative one. Yet we can mistakenly write off the influence we have on our own children.<\/p>\n\n\n

For example, you can set your parental control app to the strictest possible standards. But if your children don’t understand your concerns, or have friends pushing them in the opposite direction<\/a>, ultimately it won’t affect their behavior. <\/p>\n\n\n

This is especially true in \u201cdo as I say, not as I do\u201d situations. If your teens can’t look at their phones, for example, but see you constantly being tugged by notifications and alerts, they’ll wonder why you’re not taking a dose of your own medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n

So, how do you fill in the other part of the equation? How do you parent so that internet controls work as you intend them to?<\/p>\n\n\n

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