Your Child’s First Phone: Setting Up For Success

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Your Child’s First Phone: Setting Up For Success

Hear from experts on readiness, safety, rules, and practical tips to effectively guide your child before handing over their first phone.

28 Jan 2026
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Cyberlite
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Getting your child their first device is a major digital milestone, and it comes with big questions. Is my child ready? How do I keep them safe? What rules should we set from day one?

Check out Cyberlite’s webinar: Your Child’s First Phone: Setting Up For Success held on 14 Jan to learn practical strategies on when and how to introduce phones to your children. Hear from Sugirdha, a mum of two, a software developer and a member of Women Devs SG, and Cyberlite co-founder Nina Bual as they share their experience and walk you through practical strategies to set your child up for success.

Learn about:

  • How to decide if your child is ready for their own device, and how to prepare them before it arrives
  • Set up parental controls, privacy settings, and screen time limits that work for your family
  • Start conversations about inappropriate content before your child encounters it
  • Teach responsible device ownership and build healthy routines from the start
  • Create a sense of shared responsibility so your child feels trusted, not just monitored

Whether you're about to hand over that first device or want to reset the rules with one already in use, come learn practical strategies you can apply right away. Let's help our kids become confident, responsible digital citizens!

Short on time? Check out the infographic for the key takeaways, or scroll on for the recorded webinar.

First One Game infographic

Watch the recorded webinar for a more in-depth discussion:

Brought to you by Digital for Life, in collaboration with Cyberlite.

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