Balancing Child Safety and Autonomy Online

[Dr. Sebastian Wachs]: So we need to find a balanced way to shield our children from potential harmful interactions. But on the other side, not being overprotecting and, you know, and don’t allow them to develop. It’s quite important that children and especially adolescents explore the world offline and online, with increasing age, more and more alone, right? So otherwise they don’t develop the skills they need when they’re grown up to cope with differences, to manage several challenges which this life would, yeah, they will face in life. So first of all, I think it’s quite important to be honest and to talk about what kinds of, if you use some kind of monitoring software or something like that, you should be honest and talk with your child about that. You should explore the Internet, like the offline world, with your child together. Talk about spaces that are safe, online websites which are maybe not that safe.