Psychologists from “Healthy and Green” held a workshop for primary school children from Kragujevac. We started it with a simple question — what makes up their digital world?
The answers quickly filled the entire flipchart: from the Internet, YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, through Viber, Snapchat and games, all the way to online shopping and artificial intelligence. They themselves, without our help, created a real map of the space they live in every day — and this is where, significantly, “parental supervision” was found.
Through conversation and joint activities, we were reminded that the Internet is neither good nor bad in itself — it all depends on how we use it. We talked about what we share and with whom, how to recognize situations in which something is wrong and who to turn to for help.
The best thing was to see how much the children are already thinking about all this and how much they have to say. Because a responsible attitude towards the digital world does not start with prohibitions, but with a conversation — and the best conversation is the one in which adults also listen.
