How can you protect your children online?

1. Don’t call them by their real names online; not because you don’t want people to know their names but in future, if someone types your child's full name, it won’t bring out their life history.
2. Don’t show their faces; Again even if by chance they find out the pseudo name you gave your child online, there won’t be a face to the name and anyone that is not close enough to you or doesn’t meet you in this life won’t know what your child looks like, most especially if you are in the public eyes - they can have a normal life.
3. If you are not a blogger, any vital info of your child shouldn’t be out there; School, class, what they ate, where they play etc. This can be deduced by things like school drop-offs, uniform pictures, showing your trip to somewhere. Simple things like that.
4. Ask your family not to post their pictures and if they HAVE to, have the control: Let them ask for permission, give them the picture you want to be out there IF they have to post it and tell them not to tag you! Think about it, no one will really go and be searching for grandmas name to find your child.
5. Keep your account private: While this is not necessarily effective in my opinion but it is a level of care because there is an extra layer of security on your account but know that your pictures can still be downloaded.
6. Just don’t post their pictures. Simple. I know, we all want to talk about our kids that’s why we have a family Whatsapp group. Lol. If it’s itching me too much, I post to my sisters to see the wonders their nephew is doing.

How can a blogger know exactly what to post about their kids;

1. Know the long term consequences of sharing online and decide which you can live with
2. Be aware that your child can in the future tell you to stop posting about them, think about it and make a decision on what to post based on that.
3. Know that in some cases, some information cannot leave the internet. So, be guided before you post.
4. Be aware of all the risks and possible “weak points” you might have most especially if you have a larger audience and take extra caution.
5. If you are working with brands, let them know the boundaries (upfront) when your children are involved and be willing to let go of any opportunity that doesn’t respect those.

What are your thoughts? Should it be this serious?

Hello People! This is week 1 of our 52-week theme-based activities 

• Numeracy:
• Science:
• Craft:
• Fine motor skills:
• Gross motor skills:
• Cooking:
• Books to read:
• Trip:
• Screen:
• Music:
• Bible:

• Numeracy: Count body parts/Birthday (He turned 2) We counted our body parts and I honestly can't remember how he responded to it. We talked about him turning 2 on the 15th and counted 1, 2 with a big hurray!!! It brings so many giggles!
• Science: I see me - We have a room with giant mirrors and we went in there to see 'me' and we touched his eyes, nose through the mirror and gave himself a big kiss!
  

  

  
  

  
• Craft: Finger painting, trace out all 5 fingers & colour, make a face. We did this on different days of the week. (pictures and what you need below)

  You need, 2 Googly eyes, something to draw a circle, gum, pen, thread

  
  
  

  1. Make the circle and cut it. Draw "hair" with a pen

  
  

  Pull out the string.

  
  

  draw the eyes, nose & mouth

  Put the glue on the hair, eyes and had cuddles put the eyes, name it and hurray.

  
  

  
  

  Added one crayon to colour the mouth.

  Depending on your childs age, you can let them draw face themselves and suggest to them what they can do.
  

  What you need: Finger paint, a pencil to trace a finger, alot of patience and will power to leave your child to play and make a mess.

  
  
  

  
• Fine motor skills: Play dough with 2 candles to poke holes in- I couldn't do this one, we were too occupied with other days
• Gross motor skills: Playground/nature walk: Our nature walk this week was focused on anything he was interested in. If he wanted a flower, we cut it. If he wanted to watch the garbage truck, I let him.
  
  

  Flowers

  
  

  We talked about the orange truck

  
  

  We stopped by the wheelbarrow

  
  

  Picked up a leaf

  
  

  Flowers

  
  

  

  
  

  He started dropping all the random things inside the drainage, stones, leaf and watched how the water beneath reacted.

  
  
  

  He sat to watch the garbage truck do their thing.

• Cooking: Face pancake/ Bake birthday cake together
• Books to read: My book about me - Dr Seuss/All by myself - Mercer Mayer : I couldn't find My book about me but we read "All by myself" via youtube. I am still looking for how to update our library
• Trip: Downstairs to the mirror; We walked downstairs to the mirror room
  

  

  
  

  
• Screen: We didn't really do anything along this lines but it is supposed to be screen time related to the theme for the week
• Music: head, shoulders, knees & toes, My name is.... (I used supersimple songs version)
• Bible: Jesus loves me song

• Numeracy:
• Science:
• Craft:
• Fine motor skills:
• Gross motor skills:
• Cooking:
• Books to read:
• Trip:
• Screen:
• Music:
• Bible: