The Online Safety Toolkit: Guidesheet: 7 Steps for Deciding what Apps to Allow
Use this series of questions to help decide, in collaboration with your kids, when to allow or prevent apps and games. Let them know it is not a checklist resulting in only “yes” or “no”, but that there may be settings and parameters that need to be in place before proceeding.
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