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The Risk Of Doing Nothing For Your Child Before They Go Online
There are risks to everything we face today. And online is no different. Excessive exposure to the digital world can impact their cognitive, social, and
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The Uncomfortable Truth – Our Children Need Us
We don’t want to face what is out there, it is scary and to be honest, most of us don’t fully understand the risks and
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Social Media Addition Is Very Real
Allowing children under 13 years of age to be on social media, could cause an addiction and have a negative effect on our future leaders’ lives.
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The Role of Technology in Children’s Education: Opportunities and Challenges
The opportunities and challenges technology can bring to our children’s lives.
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Understanding the Dangers of Roblox for Children
Explore the potential hazards lurking within the popular online gaming platform, Roblox, and discover crucial insights to safeguard your children’s digital well-being. Unravel the risks, from inappropriate content to online predators, empowering parents with the knowledge to navigate their child’s virtual world safely.
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Creating a safe place for kids to grow and be their best!
Protecting children from a young age can be the difference in their future, Thula Baba Basket and Social Kids join forces.
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Why Healthy digital habits matter!
Understand the risks associated with letting our children run wild on the World Wide Web. Creating healthy digital habits at a young age will be the difference.
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Age restrictions, are they purely suggestions when it comes to social media?
Understand the risks of ignoring age restrictions when it comes to social media.
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Digital literacy – At what age should you become a digital citizen?
At what age do we teach digital literacy to nurture a positive digital citizen? Social Kids believes it’s when a child can understand instructions or can read.
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To gift a phone or not?
We’re in the business of protecting children from the dangers that lurk online and supporting parents through the journey.
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Exposing Children To Technology – Protect Them First!
When exposing children to technology, protect them first. Social Kids was designed to help facilitate their journey online.
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keeping the balance between screens
Find the perfect balance between screens. Codey and his friends help to nurture healthy digital habits from a young age.
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Unlock the beauty of “I’m bored!”
Unlock the beauty of – “I’m bored!” No matter what time of year, parents are faced with this on a daily basis. Don’t be fooled, they know exactly what they want to do – play on a screen.
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A Circle Of Trust – 6 Steps To Talking About Hard Issues.
If you’ve completed a Codey Adventure, you’ll know all about a circle of trust! A circle of trust can help you start difficult conversations about
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Handling Cyberbullying for your child
Handling Cyberbullies online Bullying is not new; we’ve been facing this for centuries. The difference is, in today’s digital world we have anonymity. There is often no restraint
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Meet Codey Crawler
Meet Codey Crawler Codey is a brave internet explorer, who dedicates his time to teaching the internet basics for kids, like how to navigate the online
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Teaching children self-awareness of screen time
Teaching children self-awareness of screen time. We’ve all done, it! We repeat ourselves 3 to 5 times a day, and often wonder “Should I get
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What is your child’s online maturity?
What’s your child’s online maturity? It may feel strange that we’re talking about online maturity when we are showing children aged 7 to 11 years
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Social Kids Parent Guides
The Social Kids parental guides offer advice and global best practise with insights to help you do what you do best – Love and protect your child.
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Jump in and Out of a Codey Adventure every day
Jump in and Out Of A Codey Adventure With Supervised Classes Time is precious and we want to spend our time wisely. But time is
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The seven Realities your child will face online
The 7 realities of what your child could face in the digital world. We are living in a digital world, monitoring your child while they
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There is never enough time, yet time flies!
There is never enough time, yet time flies! Juggling work life balance has been a topic of stress for most parents. For some reason, even
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Be Beside Your Child In Their Online Journey.
It’s time to be part of your child’s digital journey, with Codey Crawler guiding you through how to manage the conversations and manage their exposure
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Time To Step Up Parents! Take Control Of Your Child’s Online Future.
According to a report by the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, there has been a significant increase in reports of online child exploitation
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Be The Change For Your Child.
It’s just a picture, but the effects are so much more, when it’s not done correctly and with no thought. Parents can be part of