Having “The Talk” About Internet Safety With Kids Little To Grown: Episode 247

The Mom Hour

Mom Hour Media

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

When your kids are tiny, it might feel like you have lots of time before their access to the internet requires you to have “the tech talk” – a conversation about online safety, citizenship, and digital well being. And if having that talk feels overwhelming to you, you’re not alone! Only 4 in 10 parents feel confident enough to talk to their family about online safety.

But as moms of many kids in different age ranges, we know that just like with other big topics, it’s not one conversation you’ll have with your kids, it’s many small ones over time that will add up to your kids feeling capable and confident using the internet as safely as possible (and feeling comfortable coming to you when they need support).

Join Meagan and Sarah for a little-to-grown rundown of how we talk about things like online online safety, social sharing and communicating responsibly, digital citizenship and more with our kids–plus specific tips for how to make the conversation accessible and fun for you as a parent, not something to stress over.

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We would love to hear from you! Email us hello@themomhour.com, and send us your tips for talking to kids about internet safety

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from little to
0:05.7	grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages of life. But we both know that
0:10.5	motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share tips and encouragement.
0:14.0	And remind you that it's really all going to be okay.
0:16.4	We're not experts. We're parents who've been there.
0:18.6	We're not perfect. We're real.
0:20.2	Welcome to the mom hour.
0:21.6	Hey everyone and welcome to episode 247 of the Mom Hour.
0:27.0	I am Sarah Powers here as always with Megan Francis.
0:30.0	Hey Megan.
0:31.0	Hi Sarah, happy to be with you today.
0:32.6	I know. I'm really excited about this episode.
0:34.8	We're talking about technology and having the tech talk with our kids today.
0:39.2	Things like online safety and internet privacy and a whole bunch of stuff that maybe sounds
0:44.6	intimidating but our goal today is really to make it not that way for parents.
0:48.2	Totally agree like we both know there are so many positive things that come from both having technology in our lives and also being really open with our kids about it.
0:58.0	One thing that I think is really interesting when I think about kids in tech, sometimes I think we kind of put that aside like it's like a separate thing but almost every technology
1:07.7	issue that I've kind of walked through in my mind
1:10.9	really relates to almost every other parenting issue.
1:14.0	It's not like my parenting completely changes because now there's a device involved or like the
1:18.5	internet is involved.
1:19.7	It's still the same basic principles and so you know around here at the mom hour we we like to kind of
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