03/06/2025
🔶 This is a sentence I hear a lot from parents seeking my help with an issue online. It’s an area that I think is therefore worth bringing up even though it may not sit comfortably with some. Mainly because often, when we dig a little deeper, we may admit that perhaps this ‘right to privacy’ is one that some parents hide behind. Let’s be honest, leaving their online world alone and convincing ourselves that in doing so it makes us a good parent is an easy route to take isn’t it?
📱Put simply - It’s far, far harder to be intrusive. To take the time to learn and understand their world and then to check what they are actually accessing. So my challenge to you today would be- what about some of the other rights that apply to your child?
🔱 Article 16 does give children the right to privacy however Article 3 states ‘The best interests of the child must be a top priority in all decisions and actions that affect children.’ Article 5 states ‘Governments must respect the rights and responsibilities of parents and carers to provide guidance and direction to their child as they grow up, so that they fully enjoy their rights. This must be done in a way that recognises the child’s increasing capacity to make their own choices.’
🧑🧒 What we see here is that actually your child needs YOU to help them develop that autonomy in the online world in a structured and guided way. Simply leaving them to it isn’t giving them that support. Think about it this way: Would you be happy, under giving your child the right to privacy, to allow your child to sit in a room alone with unfettered access to themes of a sexual nature, violence, aggression, disordered eating and misogyny?
⚠️ What reaction did that bring up for you?
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