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Parenting for a Digital Future

A simple exercise for (digital) parenting

August 15, 2020 By Anne 3 Comments

This is inspired by all the families in Parenting for a Digital Future, the book I reviewed earlier this week (I also added this as a sidebar in that post for readers' convenience). It's a little exercise to explain and expand on the statement I led the review with: “family context eclipses screen time.” Please customize to make it meaningful to your family. Instead of watching the clock to … [Read more...] about A simple exercise for (digital) parenting

Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: Alicia Blum-Ross, Parenting for a Digital Future, Sonia Livingstone

Screens kids use, Part 1: Everywhere and ‘irrelevant’

March 12, 2020 By Anne 6 Comments

Ofcom research

The webinar was set up as a debate, a transatlantic one between psychology Prof. Sonia Livingstone at the London School of Economics and health sciences Assoc. Prof. Kristi Adamo at the University of Ottawa. They were asked to talk about “screen time” by their hosts at the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity – whether it’s good, bad or both. Dr. Livingstone was … [Read more...] about Screens kids use, Part 1: Everywhere and ‘irrelevant’

Filed Under: Parenting, Research Tagged With: Alicia Blum-Ross, International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, ISBNPA, Kristi Adamo, LSE, Ofcom, P4DF, Parenting for a Digital Future, Sonia Livingstone

Uncontroversial: Online porn in sex ed

July 31, 2019 By Anne 1 Comment

symbols for female & male

The other day, prominent UK professor Sonia Livingstone tweeted that the latest post in the Parenting for a Digital Future blog (which she helped create) has proven controversial. That’s not a huge surprise. The post argues that not including online porn in high school sex education classes “is a missed opportunity.” I agree. The post’s writer, Claire Meehan, a lecturer in criminology at the … [Read more...] about Uncontroversial: Online porn in sex ed

Filed Under: Parenting, Research Tagged With: Claire Meehan, healthy relationships, Parenting for a Digital Future, sex education, sexual health, Sonia Livingstone

Safer Internet Day 2019: Risk vs harm, online & offline

February 5, 2019 By Anne 1 Comment

What better way to mark Safer Internet Day than with clarity on the difference between risk and harm? Because, where online safety's concerned, the two words have been used interchangeably – inaccurately – for years. It was EU Kids Online, after surveys of more than 25,000 9-16 year-olds across Europe, that first made the distinction, reporting that, "as with riding a bike or crossing the road, … [Read more...] about Safer Internet Day 2019: Risk vs harm, online & offline

Filed Under: Research, Risk & Safety, Youth Tagged With: David Finkelhor, EU Kids Online, Gianfranco Polizzi, Kate Gilchrist, London School of Economics, LSE, Marshall Duke, Parenting for a Digital Future, Safer Internet Day, Sonia Livingstone

What does GDPR mean for our kids?

May 25, 2018 By Anne 2 Comments

Digital consent ages chart

You may be wondering what, if any, impact Europe's sweeping new data law, GDPR (for General Data Privacy Regulation), has on parenting tech users in your life. After all, it went into effect today, and you may've seen headlines like the New York Times's about how it makes Europe the "world's leading tech watchdog" or the piece in Ad Age pointing out the irony that a data privacy law triggered a … [Read more...] about What does GDPR mean for our kids?

Filed Under: childrens rights, Law & Policy, Parenting, Youth Tagged With: COPPA, digital age of consent, digital rights, GDPR, John Carr, Parenting for a Digital Future, Sonia Livingstone, youth rights

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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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