Advantages of Digital Parenting Skills
In today's technology-driven world, digital parenting skills have become essential for guiding and protecting children in the digital space. These skills empower parents to be informed role models, monitor their child's online activity, ensure safe and effective use of digital devices, and foster healthy, responsible technology habits.
Let us look into the major advantages that these skills can provide, giving parents an edge in the current digital world.
- Enables parents to be their child’s role model in digital world
Parents should always bear in mind that they are their child’s first teachers. It is them who the children observe constantly while growing up and it’s their footsteps that the children step in later. Therefore, parents should not only be aware of technologies and their proper usage, but also strictly implement the standards they intend to set for children.
- Helps parents to be technically updated to monitor child’s activity
With the ever-developing technologies, there are updated digital gadgets with variety of features, games, applications trending in the market, which children will be interested to use. The appropriate information regarding these helps the parents to be knowledgeable enough to understand and guide the child when they try to use these trending gadgets/technologies. Also, there are some useful apps to track child’s whereabouts; their online activity etc., apps like life 360, bark, net nanny etc. are few examples which can help in digital parenting.
- Helps parents to be aware of dangers and threats in digital space
As interesting, exciting and informative the world of internet may seem, it certainly has dangers and threats lurking around. The threats of phishing, cyber bullying, trolling, malware, hacking etc., are all real and children can be even more vulnerable to these threats. It becomes necessary for parents in this digital age to not only have an understanding about these online dangers and threats but also be aware about the ways and measures to be suggested to ensure online safety of child
- Helps parents to ensure effective and secure use of gadgets
The digital gadgets accessed by children today are more advanced and have variety of security features which can be enabled for their effective use. Having knowledge about these features can help parents in activating the privacy options with appropriate security settings on the digital devices accessible to children, avoiding inappropriate online exposure for their age and also helping them be safe online.
- Helps parents ensure productive use of digital devices and technology
The digital parenting skills help them have an understanding of both its uses and threats in the digital world. This understanding ensures that they adopt an enabling parenting style. It helps to draw family guidelines, contracts, agreements for proper use of digital devices with open talks or discussions. This open approach helps them efficiently manage child’s digital time and supervise their digital activity effectively.