Online social activities: Socialize safely online

Here are some social activities your family can do to keep your kids entertained and not feel like they’re missing out.

• Make art together. Why not let your kids FaceTime with their friends? And at the same time, have you both followed a drawing tutorial or challenge? You can find some tutorials / drawing challenges.Here Y here.
• Play Heads Up! Like Charades, it is an interactive app that can be downloaded by both parties. Players hold their phones to their foreheads and are given clues by others to help them guess from various categories.
• Social Games and Apps: There are many apps and game platforms for kids, such as roblox. For more recommendations, check out ourThe best video games kids want to play Article.
• Have a party or a virtual time! You can useZoom, FaceTime, Google meeting or Houseparty, Just to name a few.
• Have a viewing party! With watching parties, you can watch movies or shows online while chatting with friends and family at the same time. Stuck on what to look at? Take a look at ourrecommended watch selections.
• Allow socializing on social networks. Since screen time is more likely to increase, it is important to realize that children’s screen time will increase, although it is not necessarily a bad thing, make sure your child hasbalanced digital diet. In addition, we recommend keeping an eye on who and what they relate to.

Online safety tips

• Talk to your kids about what they do online – do you know what they do online? Ask them who they interact with online and always tell them not to accept friend requests from strangers.
• If you are making video calls, be sure to review or configure the privacy and security settings on your device beforehand. Look at ourparental controls where you will find various settings for different platforms, applications and devices.
• Teach them to limit what they share, that is, their personal data like their full name, school, address, family / friend information, etc. Please use a strong username.
• Make sure you and your children know how block, mute or report on different platforms.
• Remind kids that once they post something online, they can’t take it back. Even if information is removed from a site, you have little or no control over previous versions that may exist on other people’s computers and may circulate online.
• Check your children’s friend lists regularly; you may want to limit your friends list to only people you know
• Create a digital agreement to establish some digital rules about the use of technology inside and outside the home.

* Research by Super Awesome, extensive desk research and data from the Insights 2020 People Data Portal