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What's Your Opinion — Is This OK?

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What's Your Opinion — Is This OK?

Parents react to everyday media situations with red or green cards to reflect and discuss different family approaches

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Overview

  • Target group:
    Parents
  • Group size:
    Group
  • Duration:
    5–20 min
  • Materials:
    • Green and red cards, alternatively you can use cards with a happy or unhappy emoji

Goal

Open up a discussion, get a sense of the parents opinion, sensitize parents for critical aspects of media education.

Steps

1

Prepare materials: Get red and green cards ready (for "not ok" and "ok") and lay them out for the parents before the meeting begins.

2

Prepare several real-life situations for parents to respond to, for example:

  • Watching cartoons during dinner.
  • The six-year-old brother can play video games only when his three-year-old sister is not around.
  • Mom posts pictures of her baby in her WhatsApp status.
  • The news is on TV, and your four-year-old is watching.
  • Mom is strict about not letting her three-year-old use her smartphone, but Dad makes exceptions.
3

Ask the parents: "Do you think this is OK or not OK?" Parents can show their opinion with the red or green card.

4

Facilitate discussion:

  • Invite parents to share why they think something is OK or not.
  • Emphasize that all opinions are valid and that families have different rules, values, and routines.
  • The goal is not to judge but to reflect and learn from each other's experiences.
5

Close the activity by summarizing that diversity in approaches is normal, and exchanging ideas can help everyone find balanced and thoughtful ways to deal with media in family life.

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