No Phones Before 13? Keeping Kids Safe Online with Dr Martha
Lost In Translation
Bauer Media
4.7 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This special episode of The Overshare is brought to you by Tesco Mobile and goes deep into the most important issues facing parents now. When is the right time to give your child a smartphone? And how can we protect our children when the online world is all around them?
Gemma is joined by clinical psychologist Dr. Martha Derious Collado, alongside two candid oversharers, Samantha and Debbie, who open up about the daily struggles—and serious scares—they’ve faced navigating online safety with their children.
We explore how to build trust, set boundaries, and start honest conversations early. Because as Dr. Marta says, smartphones weren’t made for kids—but with the right tools and support, we can prepare them for the digital world.
Search Tesco Mobile Online Safety for expert advice and resources to help you protect your child online.
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| 0:00.0 | Children see phones as like these like super magical boxes that they're really curious about. |
| 0:05.0 | Of course they are. We all have one. They want one too. |
| 0:08.3 | Kind of have a bit of a daily battle with TikTok. |
| 0:10.6 | There's nothing strict about that at nine. You're on the, you're on the, you. |
| 0:14.7 | Yeah, I was really surprised by your use of language. |
| 0:17.7 | It's our responsibility to protect them. We're the bill payers for the phone. |
| 0:21.3 | You know, we have all this responsibility |
| 0:23.1 | and you have to step up and protect your child. |
| 0:26.3 | Smart phones were not created for children. |
| 0:28.3 | Okay, they were created for adults. |
| 0:30.0 | They were created as tools for work. |
| 0:31.8 | They are basically supercharged computers in our pocket. |
| 0:40.0 | Hi, I'm Gemma Atkinson, and this episode of The Overshare is brought to you by Tesco |
| 0:45.1 | Mobile. |
| 0:46.1 | They recognise how important it is to understand your kids' online world, and it's that first |
| 0:51.3 | step to keeping them safe. |
| 0:53.3 | So they've created a bank of resources to help parents keep their children safe online |
| 0:57.8 | with advice on starting those tricky conversations early, |
| 1:02.0 | keeping kids away from harmful content and setting limits and much, much more. |
| 1:06.7 | Now, I know you guys are parents, as I am. |
| 1:09.9 | So understanding these conversations is really, really important, but it's also not easy. |
| 1:14.8 | I know that as well. |
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