WHY IT MATTERS
Home should be the place where children can relax without performing or being observed. When cameras can appear in bedrooms, kitchens, cars and emotional conversations, children may feel there is nowhere they can be entirely private.
1. CREATE PERMANENT NO-FILM ZONES
Children should always have spaces where cameras are forbidden.
2. PROTECT BEDROOMS
A child’s sleeping and personal space deserves strong privacy.
3. NEVER FILM SECRETLY
Hidden or unexpected recording can severely undermine trust.
4. RESPECT CLOSED DOORS
Physical privacy boundaries should mean something.
5. PROTECT DOWNTIME
Children need time when they know they cannot suddenly become content.
6. ALLOW AN IMMEDIATE NO
They should be able to stop filming without argument.
7. DON’T FILM EMOTIONAL RETREATS
If a child goes somewhere private to calm down, leave the camera behind.
8. HAVE CAMERA-FREE DAYS
Privacy should involve time as well as physical space.
9. REVIEW HOW MUCH OF THE HOME IS ONLINE
Years of footage can gradually remove privacy room by room.
10. MAKE HOME FEEL LIKE HOME
It should not resemble a permanent filming location.
BOTTOM LINE
Every child deserves somewhere they can close the door and know the audience cannot follow.