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The state of global youth, digitally speaking: Research

December 16, 2017 By Anne 2 Comments

UNICEF's SOTWC 2017 report

There could be no better year-end wrap-up or gift for stakeholders in youth online safety worldwide than UNICEF's just-released "State of the World's Children…in a Digital World." In it are the latest research, stories and commentaries from multiple international perspectives, including, to its credit, those of young people in 26 countries. In addition to their views and practices, the report … [Read more...] about The state of global youth, digitally speaking: Research

Filed Under: childrens rights, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Achila Imchen, Amanda Third, Brian Keeley, digital parenting, digital rights, GDPR, Internet addiction, Michael Rich, Mimi Ito, parental consent, Sonia Livingstone, UNICEF, youth rights

Facebook’s Messenger Kids: Important new digital-parenting tool

December 4, 2017 By Anne Leave a Comment

FB Messenger Kids screenshot

Facebook’s launch of Messenger Kids is a game-changer – but not just in the way you might think. Sure it’s the world’s largest social media service’s first product for people under 13. That’s certainly big news, and what will capture most of the headlines this week. But it’s actually a combination of that and something less noticeable and more meaningful that’s really game-changing about Messenger … [Read more...] about Facebook’s Messenger Kids: Important new digital-parenting tool

Filed Under: apps, child development, kids, mobile, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: apps, digital parenting, Facebook, messaging, Messenger Kids, mobile, online parenting, parental controls, smartphones, texting

Digital parenting: Individual, situational, contextual

April 16, 2015 By Anne 2 Comments

It's so interesting to see what British psychologist Sonia Livingstone zooms in on in American psychologist Lynn Schofield Clark's book on parenting digital media users, The Parent App. Dr. Livingstone picked up on what I liked most about the book too: diversity and depth of insight. Dr. Clark interviewed "46 very different families" for a study that Livingstone calls "one of the most astute … [Read more...] about Digital parenting: Individual, situational, contextual

Filed Under: Parenting, Social Media Tagged With: digital parenting, family, Lynn Schofield Clark, Parenting, Sonia Livingstone, The Parent App, values

Perfect digital parenting doesn’t exist

November 9, 2014 By Anne 2 Comments

I'm stating the obvious – that perfect digital-age parenting doesn't exist – but let me explain why it doesn't. Writer Heather Havrilesky got me thinking about this with her commentary "The 'Mommy' Problem" in the New York Times this weekend. She focuses on mothers (since our culture does so much) and on offline parenting. I'll add the digital part. She writes that "the current culture demands … [Read more...] about Perfect digital parenting doesn’t exist

Filed Under: adolescent development, at-risk teens, child development, kids, Parenting, Risk & Safety, Social Media, teens, Youth Tagged With: child development, digital parenting, Heather Havrilesky, homeless people, kids, Parenting, parents, resilience, risk, tech parenting, youth

For progressive parenting: Great book

October 4, 2012 By Anne Leave a Comment

It takes a team of strong firefighters to manage and direct a fire hose with all the pressurized water coming through it. That's a good metaphor for today's media, which seems to come at us at that level of pressure but less regulated than ever because produced by literally anybody; it's user-driven, and for teens the most interesting (and challenging) parts are self- and peer-driven. So, more and … [Read more...] about For progressive parenting: Great book

Filed Under: Ethics & Etiquette, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting Tagged With: 21st century, adolescent development, Annie Fox, child development, child-raising, digital parenting, moral compass, Parenting, Teaching Kids to Be Good People, tech parenting

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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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