Skip to content

Signs of pressure

  • Do not tell your parents.
  • Delete the chat.
  • Send a picture.
  • Can we meet alone?

What you can do

  1. Tell an adult you trust what is happening.
  2. You do not have to respond to demands or threats.
  3. If you want to look at the wording together, you can also use Safe Keyboard.

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

  1. Make clear that your child can get help even if they have broken an agreement.
  2. Ask what happened without pushing for every detail.
  3. Help end contact if needed and find someone you can ask for advice.