Top Digital Parenting posts for 2015
When it comes to digital parenting today, much of what I believe comes from the need to have a clear understanding of the world our children are growing up in, and a solid perspective of what it means...
View ArticleTop video games posts for parents from 2015
The amount of time kids spend playing video games, the types of video games our kids play and the fear of kids becoming gamer zombies with no social skills or relation to the real world, is often a...
View ArticleObserving Human behaviour online: what it means for our kids
The arrival of the internet some 20 something years ago, presented us with untold changes to the way we live our lives. Much of those changes now centre around how we work, how we are educated,...
View ArticleWhat a photo gone viral tells us about digital parenting
Recently I saw a photo from a content filtering company NetSanity on Twitter, had a little chuckle to myself, thought it relevant to my audience and shared it on my Facebook page. Here is the...
View ArticleSafer Internet Day 2016: Parents play your part #SID2016
Tuesday 9th February is Safer Internet Day. This year over one hundred countries will come together to promote a safer internet through raising awareness, improving education and working on laws to...
View ArticleWhen kids make mistakes online: what should parents do?
We spend our days getting kids to recite “what goes online stays online” and “Be kind online”. All very relevant phrases that we want to become built in mantras that our kids play on repeat, every time...
View Article7 signs social media is killing your kids self esteem (or yours)
Social media is killing our kids self esteem. And for many an adult too,it is wreaking havoc with their sense of self worth. With social media offering us a constant barrage of comparison with those...
View ArticleReducing the road toll: Do boys listen to their mums?
Please note this is a sponsored post brought to you by Nuffnang and the Qld Govt. As a mother with boys who are fast approaching the world of learner permits, driving lessons, saving for first cars and...
View ArticleMy week on snapchat: getting perspective for kids and parents
I have been talking to parents about Snapchat for a while now. After all, this is by and large one of the most popular apps kids are using at the moment. It is a social network created on the premise...
View ArticleMy response to the ‘vile pornography ring’
This week there has been more reports of abhorrent behaviours by young people, sharing nude photos of others, commenting, naming them, degrading them and passing judgement in pack mentality like...
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