Protecting children

[Lana1z]

Am I being unreasonable to say it feels impossible to protect children from information/material that is far above their years? They are primary school age and the things they come home talking about having spoken to other children horrified me 😱 (children accessing porn, playing grand theft auto) how is it possible to protect them yet not be overprotective and therefore push them further into it, if you know what I mean?!

It by protect, you mean hide them away from such things completely - then no, not possible. As you say, they hear it at school, they’ll see things at sleepovers.

By protect, you need to create a relationship with them that is open, where you and they can talk freely about what they see and hear, and what the dangers and impact of that are.

I have no magic answer for that though, trying to achieve it myself 🤷‍♀️

Yep lots of conversations but feels like daily!