Announcing Our Unplug and Plug In Podcast for Parents!
It’s an exciting day around here! We’re launching our podcast for parents, hosted by our director, Lisa Honold, and focused on parenting kids to develop a healthy relationship with technology.
Parenting kids and their technology for online safety
Today we’re starting episode one with an overview of kids and technology. I'll be talking about why every parent should be talking with their kids about unplugging distractions and plugging into life, and because it's our first episode, I'll share a bit about how I got into teaching parenting and cyber safety.
It’s different parenting kids today vs. 20 years ago.
Kids today have no sense of being unplugged from their devices. Ever.
The internet is accessible 24/7
Being disconnected causes anxiety
Games and apps are designed to be addictive and keeps kids online
The algorithms in social media apps manipulate kids. (Watch the movie The Social Dilemma as a family to see this in action.)
Takeaway
Your kids need your guidance, your life experience, to navigate all the tricky situations online. It's not fair to hand them a phone and "hope for the best".
Tune in for future episodes on guiding your kids, teens and tweens to be smarter, safer digital citizens, supervising what they are doing online and building your relationship as your kids want more independence and freedom.
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