What you can do
- Choose one app and one feature to try.
- Use an invented example without private messages, personal details or images.
- Let the child try the feature and review the result together.
- Agree when to use the app and check what is saved when it is reopened.
Avoid
- Listen first, without blaming or shaming your child.
- Do not forward private messages, intimate images or explicit screenshots.
- No app can protect against everything. Do not promise that it can.
For parents
Make clear that your child can get help even if they have broken an agreement.
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- Make clear that your child can get help even if they have broken an agreement.
- Ask what happened without pushing for every detail.
- Help end contact if needed and find someone you can ask for advice.