How to get the best out of smartphones for your child without the drawbacks
Many parents worry about the impact of new access to smartphones and their children’s social experiences changing significantly as they move up to secondary school.
In this short film, Headteacher of Balsall Common Primary School, Mark Mitchell, explains helpful ways on how to approach technology in preparation for the move up to secondary school.
Moving up and changing school is a big change for children and parents or caregivers. It’s a new stage of growing independence and separation. Fears and worries are normal as well as excitement, as with each stage of childhood development. As parents, your role is to help children cope with and overcome their fears, to nurture them to feel brave and capable.
New resources created by psychologists and primary schools are now available at www.inourplace.co.uk/moving-up to promote connected relationships between parents and children to help children to learn and thrive as they grow in independence.
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