Parenting in a Digital world: Stop fighting, start connecting
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From toddlers to teens, this comprehensive book gives parents a detailed understanding of what it means to grow up in a digital world. Actionable and realistic strategies will help empower you to deal with issues such as time wasting and obsession, oversharing and privacy, maintaining a positive digital footprint, engaging in safe and responsible online interactions, cyberbullying, monitoring and trust, issues of online gaming and much more. this book gives parents the skills to help teach their kids to be smart, safe and responsible , enabling them to make positive decisions to minimise the risks, ,whilst taking full advantage of what the technology has to offer. A must for any parent wanting to maintain a positive connection to their child and their world, both now and in the future.
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Parenting in a Digital world - Martine Oglethorpe
Written by Martine Oglethorpe
www.themodernparent.net
Parenting in the Digital Word
Version 10 Copyright 2015 Martine Oglethorpe
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Disclaimer: the information contained in the eBook is based on my individual work, research and personal findings and is not to replace professional medical advice.
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Contents
Introduction
Why are we fighting?
Why it’s a challenge to parent in the modern world
Is technology making it harder to paren?
We can’t possibly keep up….can we?
They know stuff but are not wise like us?
Haven’t kids and parents always fought?
The Adolescent Environment
They grow and change too
Emotional changes
Social changes
How must parents interpet these changes?
Tackling those thing we fight about
Time wasting, overuse and obsession
Oversharing, privacy & rvealing too much
Digital footprin: our online reputation
Teaching critical thinkng
Keeping up with friends
Technology as punishment
Homework versus play
Accessing porn & inappropriate conent
Getting the most important connection right
Why don’t you trust me?
When to monitor follow and friend our kids online
Getting the message through: the strategies to get it right
Listen
Change your mindset
Don’t make it a competition
Build a culture of inclusive play
Give the lecture the boot
Teachable moments
Contracts
No brainers
Role model what you want to see
Let your kids shine away from the screens
Learn: be relevant
Conclusion
Start connecting now
Intro
So you have already experienced some of the negative elements to a life immersed in technology? Or maybe you are not quite there yet and are being proactive in order to prevent future transgressions?
Either way, it’s great you are here and ready to be empowered to get a really good understanding not only of the technology that is out there, but more importantly, how you can effectively incorporate it into your family life.
This book came about as I am often fielding questions from parents about their kids’ behaviour with technology and devices, which I think predominantly stems from a lack of understanding of both their children and some of the changes they go through, as well as a lack of understanding of the technology and the world they live in. Despite that, parents also still need to feel somewhat in control.
In here, we’ll look at the challenges that parents and children face when it comes to technology, and how we can overcome these.
I hope this helps to answer some of these concerns, and provides some strategies for working together with your children.
Why are we fighting?
What exactly are we fighting about? Why all the groans about the impact technology, devices, gaming and social media are having on the context of family life?
From my experience, these are the issues at play:
Parents are nagging at their kids about wasted time on devices, while kids are fighting to stay on for ‘just one more’ game;
Parents are concerned about the effects of the games their kids are playing and who they are playing with online;
Parents are bemoaning the lack of chores, homework and family commitments that are being addressed, due to a head stuck in the screens;
Kids are fighting about what social networking apps they are allowed to use, and parents are concerned about what content is being consumed;
Kids are complaining about what their friends are allowed to do that they are not and bemoaning parents that don’t trust them. They feel their parents are stalking them and their friends and taking away the technology as a form of punishment.
In summary, parents are scared, anxious and worried. They