Parents Discuss Children’s Life and Safety in Cyberspace

In Orel, parents discussed the lives and safety of children in cyberspace. An important meeting was held recently at the Regional Center for Education Quality Assessment. Almost 400 representatives of parent committees from all schools of the Orel region took part in it. Together with experts, they worked out how to protect children in today’s world, where the boundary between online and offline is becoming thinner.

According to the press service of the Government of the Orel region, at educational sites, parents discussed important and difficult topics in detail: how to counter extremist manifestations and prevent the involvement of children in them, how to ensure the safety of the child in the digital environment and notice alarm signals in time.

The key events of the programme were:

- educational lectures of the project Knowledge. Security

Lecture by Sergey Sharov, Deputy Head of the Department of Education: “The world of your student: how children live in the digital environment and what you do not see” is an honest and deep look at the information space in which our children grow up today

- speech by Anton Gomozov, Chairman of the Council of the Regional Branch of the First Movement: an analysis of the phenomenon of modern information warfare and an explanation of why teenagers are the main target of detractors

practical recommendations from representatives of the Prosecutor’s Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Orel region, the branch of the Russian Society “Knowledge” and the parent committee

At the end of the meeting, an open microphone was held: parents were able to ask the experts the most acute questions and discuss how to further build the joint work of schools, authorities and the parent community.

The enemy often draws the younger generation into questionable matters. Teenagers are attracted, among other things, by easy earnings. In Russian legislation, minors are administratively and criminally liable, but its type and severity depend on their age. Therefore, experts urge adults to carefully monitor the behavior of the child, to conduct preventive conversations with him.