What you can do
- Ask your child who sent an invitation and what the server is for. Is it for friends, a particular game or a larger community?
- Talk about the difference between a server’s shared chat and a private message. Your child does not have to keep talking just because the other person plays the same game.
- Agree who your child can contact about demands for secrecy, images or money. An adult can help end contact and report it.
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.