Why Teens Are Vulnerable to Sextortion: Protecting Your Children in the Digital Jungle with SCRIPTS to Start Important Conversations
⊕ There’s been an 18,000% increase in this crime targeting minors in the U.S. in the past 2 years, resulting in at least 39 teen suicides and 38,000 victims. ⊕ Just in the first half of 2024, the IWF, a partner in the UK Safer Internet Centre, reported a 19% increase in child sexual […]
Critical Review: BBC Panorama’s “Can We Live Without Our Phones?”
Critical Review: BBC Panorama’s “Can We Live Without Our Phones?” The BBC Panorama documentary “Can We Live Without Our Phones?” sets out to explore the omnipresent role of smartphones in our lives. While the topic is undoubtedly timely and relevant, the documentary falls short of delivering the hard-hitting analysis needed to confront the profound and […]
Navigating the Digital Jungle: Tips and SCRIPTS for Parents Talking to Kids about Cookies and Privacy Violations
Navigating the Digital Jungle: A Guide for Parents on Cookies and Privacy Violations In today’s digital world, children are growing up surrounded by technology. While the internet offers endless opportunities for learning and entertainment, it also comes with risks—particularly when it comes to online privacy. One of the most common and least understood aspects of […]
Big Tech Needs to do MORE: How Do You Feel About These Ideas?
Obtaining robust parental consent is critical when dealing with your children’s data online‼️ We’re all trying to play our part & do our bit but the Tech Giants seem to pay lip service to their Duty of Care responsibilities for kids – lowering the age of consent to 13 & making that the default option […]
Worried About Your Kids Using Their Smartphones ALL The Time? Watch This
Smartphone Free Childhood Suicides. Self-harm. Depression and anxiety. The toll of a social media-addicted, phone-based childhood has never been more stark. It can be easy for teens, parents, and schools to feel like they’re trapped by it all. But in this conversation with Tristan Harris, author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt author of ‘The Anxious […]
The Anxious Generation. HOW THE GREAT REWIRING OF CHILDHOOD IS CAUSING AN EPIDEMIC OF MENTAL ILLNESS
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness […]
Pros and Cons of Banning Social Media Apps on Children’s Phones
Esther Ghey, the mother of the murdered transgender teenager Brianna Ghey is campaigning for social media apps to be blocked on smartphones for under-16s and stronger parental controls to flag potentially harmful searches to parents, in the wake of the sentencing of her daughter’s killers. A group of parents are campaigning on Whatsapp for a […]
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After Molly Russell What Are The A-B-C’s of Keeping Your Kids Safe Online?
I was really distressed to read about the tragic suicide of Molly Russell: The ‘caring soul’ who died after exploring her depression on Instagram. Suicide is now the leading cause of death for young people under 20 and levels of self-harm are rising among teenage girls in particular. I was interviewed on BBC Radio Oxford […]