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Surgeon general’s advisory: Let’s take stock

June 16, 2023 By Anne 7 Comments

US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy advises that "we are experiencing a youth mental health crisis." Based on the data, there's no question about that. Where there is a question is whether tech and media are the cause. Some scholars simply assert they are (see the sidebar below), but neither the surgeon general nor the American Psychological Association asserts that, and the APA just wrote in its … [Read more...] about Surgeon general’s advisory: Let’s take stock

Filed Under: adolescent development, Law & Policy, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: CDC, David French, EU Kids Online, Ezra Klein, Frances Haugen, Ine Beyens, Jean Twenge, Jonathan Haidt, Judson Brewer, Kaitlyn Tiffany, Lisa Damour, Patti Valkenburg, Project AWeSome, Sonia Livingstone, Vivek Murthy

Amid all the talk of teens and ‘digital wellbeing’…

August 8, 2022 By Anne 1 Comment

...there is actually little known about teens’ wellbeing itself, without the digital part – even though “we find a near universal decrease in life satisfaction during adolescence,” write the authors of a study just published in the journal Royal Society Open Science. “This decrease is steeper than at any other point across adulthood.” The study fills us in a bit. It offers some explanations as … [Read more...] about Amid all the talk of teens and ‘digital wellbeing’…

Filed Under: adolescent development, Research, teens, Youth Tagged With: adolescence, Amy Orben, Cambridge University, Delia Fuhrmann, digital wellbeing, media effects, Richard E Lucas, Rogier A Kievit

Online safety for 2022: 8 things we need to see

December 28, 2021 By Anne 2 Comments

What a year it has been for child online safety, right?! There was the adoption of General Comment 25, bringing all things digital into the global Convention on the Rights of the Child; the draft Online Safety Bill and Parliament’s response in the UK; the release of Australia’s eSafety Commissioner’s Safety by Design for the tech industry and investors; the Age Appropriate Design Code coming into … [Read more...] about Online safety for 2022: 8 things we need to see

Filed Under: adolescent development, Law & Policy, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: #DigitalDecade4YOUth, #GoodforMedia, Adam Mosseri, Age Appropriate Design Code, AI for Children, All Tech Is Human, Berkman Klein Center, Better Internet for Kids, C2PA, CRC, eSafety, European Commission, Facebook, Frances Haugen, Harvard University, Headstream, HX, Insafe, Instagram, Integrity Institute, Jeff Allen, Meta, metaverse, Netsafe, Online Safety Bill, People Make Games, Rebooting Social Media, Richard Blumenthal, Roblox, Safety by Design, Sahar Massachi, Sophie Zhang, Stanford University, systems thinking, Technology Coalition, Telosity, Trust and Safety Professionals Association, UN Convention, UNCRC, UX, Western Sydney University, whistleblower, Young and Resilient Research Center

How our kids can become ‘indistractable’

June 17, 2021 By Anne Leave a Comment

I was almost too distracted over the past couple of days to write this review of Indistractable. But there’s some real “digital parenting” wisdom in it, so here we are, blog post done. For example, co-author Nir Eyal says, “Teach traction.” The opposite of distraction isn’t focus, as we typically think. It’s traction, which “comes from the Latin trahere, meaning ‘to draw or pull',” Eyal writes. … [Read more...] about How our kids can become ‘indistractable’

Filed Under: adolescent development, child development, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: distraction, Indistractable, Nir Eyal, SEL, Shane Parrish, tech addiction

A book for wise (digital) parenting

April 30, 2018 By Anne 1 Comment

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The Art of Screen Time, by NPR's Anya Kamenetz, could not be more timely. What with hearings and headlines about digital privacy, so much talk about "tech addiction," and bad advice about "screen time," parents deserve this haven from the storm. And it's a haven not just because Kamenetz is a great reporter with sources representing multiple perspectives and disciplines. Also because she knows … [Read more...] about A book for wise (digital) parenting

Filed Under: adolescent development, child development, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: Alicia Blum-Ross, Amy Orben, Anya Kamenetz, Candice George, David Finkelhor, Devorah Heitner, Leen d’Haenens, Madeleine George, Mimi Ito, Patti Valkenburg, Sofie Vandoninck, Sonia Livingstone, Verónica Donoso

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IMPORTANT RESOURCES

Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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