It's way more difficult that it appears --- Eventhough it´s true that parents should play a more active and engage role in their children safety and activities online, this is only part -however big or small- of the solution. It is true that parents are responsbile for buying devices and paying for access, but they usualy do not have much choice. Not buying certain device or seriously restricting its use, like an smartphone, is not the solution. Pretty soon you will find out that if you do that you will create a whole new series of problems, some of them with everlasting efects, like the feeling they get of being "left-out" or more seriously, the real problem of your kids not having access like their peers...

Source author: Carlos García Delgrado cgarciad@sre.gob.mx