What changes
A toddler has no accounts, no phone and no online life. What a toddler has is a name, a face, a birthday and a location — all of it posted, with love, by adults. The first digital footprint almost every child has was built entirely by their family.
What the household does
- A footprint check on the adults, not the child — what is already public about this home
- The baby monitor and the camera moved onto their own network lane, with the default password gone
- A household agreement about what gets posted, and where, and by whom
- Grandparents included, because the sweetest photo of the year is usually not on your own account
Do this now The single highest-value thing a family can do in these five years is decide, once and together, what they publish about a child who cannot yet consent.