A framework for digital resilience: supporting children through an enabling environment

When children use the internet they encounter both risks and opportunities but their ability to self-regulate their media use and avoid the negative effects makes a difference between experiencing online benefits or harms. For www.parenting.digital, Cliff Manning discusses the development of the Digital Resilience Framework and how children and young people can be supported to become resilient users of the internet. Developing children’s digital skills and pro-active online engagement, as well as supportive and enabling parenting, have a more positive impact on resilience than strategies that only restrict or monitor internet use and limit children’s digital skills.