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Rad - Meeting 11 - 05 Juni 2021
Rad - Meeting 11 - 05 Juni 2021
1. Parenting, the process of raising children and providing them with protection and
care in order to ensure their healthy development into adulthood.
2. Children everywhere are gaining access to the internet – most often via a mobile
phone. In many places, too, parents are feeling challenged in their competence, role
and authority. Distinctively, internet access is bringing children access also to valued
sources of knowledge and connection that their parents may lack. How are parents
responding?
Research in high income countries points to a shift away from restrictive forms of
parental mediation such as banning the technology or telling their children off when a
problem occurs. Instead, it seems parents are increasingly using enabling forms of
mediation such as sharing some online experiences with their children and guiding
them in the use of privacy settings, advice services and critical evaluation of online
content and behaviour. This shift is influenced by parents’ own growing
experience with and expertise in using digital media. It’s also the outcome of several
years’ worth of multi-stakeholder efforts to raise parental awareness and encourage
their engagement, often led by governments and child welfare organisations.
But in middle and low income countries, it seems that parents favour restrictive
mediation. This is partly because some cultures are more authoritarian in their
parenting style (especially in relation to daughters). It’s partly because, in the
absence of supportive resources, anxious parents feel their only recourse is to protect
their children by limiting their access. It’s also because the wider public debate has
yet to embrace a conception of children as active citizens and, therefore now, also as
digital citizens.
Understanding the real constraints families and children face in the digital world is
the first step towards finding effective strategies that both parents and children can
use to maximise opportunities and minimise risks. We are currently tracking the
activities and experiences of children and parents in the digital age as part of our
research project Global Kids Online – a multinational research collaboration of
the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti, London School of Economics and
Political Science (LSE), and the EU Kids Online network in partnership with
researchers and UNICEF country offices from all over the world. Working within a
child rights framework, the aim is to generate robust evidence that can stimulate
debate and inform policy and practice regarding children’s internet use in diverse
countries.
In addition to asking children what they do online, how often and for how long, what
skills they have and risks they face, we ask them who they turn to for support if they
experience something negative online. Strikingly, the majority of children from the
seven countries presented below would turn to friends first, to parents second, and
rarely to teachers or other professionals.
Ten years on, this framework translates well in the digital era. Take modelling of
appropriate behaviour, for example. If the parent does not put down a phone or a
tablet, will the child mimic this behaviour? If a parent uses restrictive mediation and
censorship, how does this lead to respect for individuality? Ideally, parents would be
confident in drawing on their available personal and cultural resources and, to some
extent, the principles of positive parenting, when facing the new challenges linked
to children’s internet use. Ideally, too, even if tempted to prevent or restrict children’s
digital activities for fear of the harms that may result, they would be mindful that
some activities may be important to their children’s present and future opportunities –
to learn, gain information, work and engage in their community. So a balance must be
sought, and this is indeed difficult to manage, for much will depend on the child and
his or her particular circumstances.
However, as internet use becomes more familiar, and more embedded in everyday
life, parents are increasingly also digital natives. They often want to learn about the
internet and what it can offer, for the benefit of themselves and their children. It is
therefore important that stakeholders – from government and industry to schools and
communities – make greater investments to aid parents in this effort, so that they can
enable their children to learn and grow in the digital age
3. A. Parents can teach about religion rules but the child can be placed in a religion
setting in order to learn more
B. Take a walk to the playground, to the beach, where the child will view outdoors
activities as more fun than playing game at home, and it could also be by informing
that by playing too many games we can become anti-social
Set up a routine around online classes that includes things like snack breaks, and post
it on the fridge with sticky notes." Teachers can support this by posting schedules
just as they would in a physical classroom, and writing morning messages
to their students, she suggested
d. Parent can give a prohibition and tell them if do something they shouldn’t do, they
should take responsibility for themselves
4. A. Yes because its importance to a child’s life as to how others view of him, but if
parent knows only a basics, the child can be placed in a religion setting in order to
learn more
C. Of course yes, because it’s not taught in school but it’s very important
Individual
Mohammad Syarifudin H.
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Rio Satrio
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Bagus Dwi S.