Back to school online safety guides

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during the teenage years I think for a
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lot of young people the phone becomes
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kind of ubiquitous with being able to
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socialize and as a consequence they're
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there on it a lot of the time so I think
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the really important thing at this point
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is to understand how this usage is
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affecting them physiologically as well
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so for example we know that the blue
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light from phones and tablets can really
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disrupt sleep patterns and that
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increasingly their sleep is becoming
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worse and worse in fact we think this is
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because of technology so have a
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discussion with your child around why
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it's important to turn the phone off
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after a certain time the other thing of
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course is getting them to understand how
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their usage of tech is affecting things
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like learning if you're trying to read
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something and it's constantly coming up
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with you know little pings telling you
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someone's trying to contact you or
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sending you information that memory
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cycle is constantly being disrupted the
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other thing that's really important for
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this age group is getting them to
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self-regulate when it comes to the
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online world the metric for success of
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any platform is how long someone spends
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on it and as a consequence they're set
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up to be enticing starting to speak to
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them in a way that you completely
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understand that text an important part
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of their life but letting them control
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the tech rather than having the tech
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control them and empowering them to do
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so is key the other thing that's going
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on during the the teen years is the idea
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that kids form their identity we know
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that it's very validating that when they
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post something online they get likes
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getting to think about why those likes
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are so important the more they're able
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to challenge these sort of overriding
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themes that they're they're faced with
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at this age the better chance they have
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of developing that resilience it'll kind
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of help them deal with it more
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effectively so I think the first point
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for this group is get them to think
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critically and regulate their own usage
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online speak to them about making sure
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that what comes into their consciousness
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comes from a correct source and very
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critically that they're able to
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challenge it
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secondly you need to ensure that they're
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aware of the impact of their usage of
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phones an attack in general and how that
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affects them not just in terms of their
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mental health but their cognitive and
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physical health as well and sure you
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talk about how it can disrupt sleep if
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they're on their tech late at night
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likewise with learning and memory speak
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to them about it how it can disrupt
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memory even it feels that you're saying
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this stuff over and over again don't
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worry about it the broken record
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technique is actually really useful in
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getting young people to kind of embed
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what you're trying to say third point
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here is speaking about balance balance
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in how much they're working and how much
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they're relaxing balance and how much
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time they're spending online and offline
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encourage those face-to-face
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interactions encourage them to move and
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to get out so that they have more
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balance in their lives overall
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