Better Internet for Kids

This is a video vox pop questionnaire featuring Maltese students answering the question: How many social media platforms do you use daily?

Created specifically for Maltese students, the video is in Maltese with English subtitles, ensuring accessibility for a wider audience. Using a peer-to-peer format, it captures authentic, relatable perspectives from students, making the content engaging and thought-provoking. This format encourages viewers to connect with the experiences of their peers and reflect on their own social media habits.

This is a video vox pop questionnaire featuring Maltese students answering the question: How and why do you use social media?

This video, created for Maltese students, is presented in Maltese with English subtitles, ensuring it reaches a broad audience. Using a peer-to-peer format, the video captures authentic and relatable perspectives, allowing students to hear directly from their peers about their social media habits and motivations. This approach makes the content engaging while encouraging self-reflection and critical thinking.

Child Focus' kids website is an attractive, easy-to-use and informative child-sized website. Children can get to know more about the organisation and the mission promoted by Child Focus.

They can find information about the organisation Child Focus, stories about children who have been helped by Child Focus, explanation about the mission of Child Focus, how they can look for a MAX, an adult confidant, and how to surf safely online. 
We dedicated an entire island to games that help children become media savvy and navigate the internet more safely in a playful way. 

The rise of digital media has turned our love and sex lives upside down. While we used to send each other love letters and red roses, today we prefer to do sexting to show our feelings. But what exactly is sexting? Why is it booming among young people? And doesn't sending spicy photos carry all kinds of risks?

Target group: young people (13-18 years)

The EDUbox Sexting guides students through the world of digital flirting and explains that sometimes things can also go wrong.

The EDUbox Sexting consists of 5 parts:

Why do children and young people follow influencers online and how can this affect them? Influencers have become an important part of children’s lives and in this podcast episode a researcher from The Swedish Agency for the Media shares new knowledge from an interview study with children and young people regarding influencers. The important role for parents to guide their children around influencers, and how this can be done, is also covered in this episode. The podcast series is called “Our children and the internet” and is produced by the Swedish Internet Foundation. 

The Digital Parenting podcast provides parents with insights and practical tips on managing their children's digital media use. In each episode, a parent and an expert in media education discuss topics such as screen time, online safety, social media, and gaming. Together, they explore the challenges and opportunities of growing up in a digital world. Each episode concludes with three actionable tips for parents to implement right away.

The podcast is available on SPotify (see URL), but also on Apple Podcasts and Pocket Casts.

Research shows that children and young people that spend a lot of time on social media are more often dissatisfied with their bodies than others. Comparisons and exposure to unrealistic body ideals is one part of it, and algorithms and “rabbit holes” is another. In this podcast episode of the Swedish podcast “Ätstörningspodden” (The eating disorder podcast) these issues, and how adults can help children navigate in this, are examined with an analyst from The Swedish Agency for the Media.

Child Focus has developed a practical and engaging lesson package designed to introduce young people to CyberSquad, an online platform where they can find help and support for online challenges. This workshop empowers students to explore CyberSquad while fostering empathy, solidarity, and problem-solving skills.

It’s also natural that sometimes a person may want to change or eliminate something about their appearance. The problems arise when you start thinking that it’s necessary to be thinner or to achieve certain body shapes to feel enough for yourself and others, and begin to diet, restrict food, or otherwise excessively focus on your appearance. Such behaviour can lead to or be caused by eating disorders.
The most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating.

"I was the kind of teenager who would allow myself not to come home, not inform my parents about anything. I smoked and drank, and I was proud of it," says Eglė Kislovski, founder and leader of the program for teenagers, as well as an organizer of youth and adult camps.

Eglė is interviewed by members of the Children’s Line Advisory Team, Ūla and Lukas. The full conversation covers adolescence, the influence of friends and parents, and how to find happiness.