Screen Time Stories: Parenting Techniques for Raising Tech Natives

Julie is joined by Jenifer Joy Madden, a digital wellness expert, health journalist, digital media educator, community advocate, and parent, to talk about how screens during the first three years of a child's life can impact their future.

Jenifer founded the Durable Human in 2009 as a platform to inspire adults and children to cherish, strengthen, and protect their unique human assets, capabilities, and perspectives in a complex and increasingly digital world.

Her words and videos have informed millions on news outlets ranging from The Washington Post to the Children and Nature Network to her website, The Durable Human. A veteran of ABC News, Jenifer is an independent multi-media reporter and a lead adjunct professor for TV news graduate students of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Jenifer distilled her life’s work and experience into two books (so far): The Durable Human Manifesto: Practical Wisdom for Living and Parenting in the Digital World and How To Be a Durable Human: Revive and Thrive in the Digital Age Through the Power of Self-Design.

Download a free e-copy of the Manifesto here.

In this episode, Julie asks Catherine Knibbs, a Child Trauma Psychotherapist, how the Attachment Theory influences kids and their interaction with technology.

Cath is a Clinical Doctoral Researcher, Consultant, Public Speaker, Author, Child Trauma Psychotherapist and member of the VUWG. She writes about and works with cybertrauma, which is any trauma that occurs through an internet ready device.

Pre-oder Cath's latest books:

Our kids live in a digital world. We can't treat their interaction with tech as a separate piece of their lives. In this episode, Shelley Delayne helps us understand how to avoid being hyper-focused on the tech piece of parenting and instead, incorporate it holistically.

Clayton Cranford, the owner of Cyber Safety Cop and a 20-year law enforcement veteran, gives us insight on kids and tech from his professional perspective

Clay is one of the nation’s leading law enforcement educators on social media, child safety, and behavioral threat assessments and the author of “Parenting in the Digital World.”

Cyber Safety Cop Screen Time Worksheet

Today's kids grow up in a world where they are surrounded by advertising at every turn. From commercials to video games to cartoons, characters are quick to impart mixed messages. While such exposure is normal, it's important that children have the tools to evaluate and understand these media messages. In this episode, Julia Storm shares how parents can support children's critical thinking skills and help them develop their own sense of media literacy.

When it comes to media, kids are bombarded by many messages. Keeping up with all of the advertising tricks can be challenging even for adults, so it's no surprise that today's kids often struggle with understanding these messages. Today we're joined with Julia Storm to discuss what parents can do to help their children develop a sense of media literacy.

“I think media literacy is sort of a big umbrella term. But one piece that's really important is understanding how all of the apps and games that we use are businesses, and ultimately, they're not created just for our pleasure. There are people behind them who are hoping to really strike it rich.”

In a world where we're more connected to media than ever, it's important to be mindful of what messages our children are exposed to from games, TV and movies and how they translate that knowledge in the real world. As parents, we have a responsibility to make sure our kids are ready for a world filled with advertising. More importantly, we need to be certain that they're seeing things as they really are and not through their young eyes. In this episode, Julia Storm shares how you, as a parent, can guide your child and help them develop the media literacy skills they need in life.

• How Julia handles tech use in their family.
• Teaching media literacy through the games your children play.
• How to help your kids think critically.
• Julia explains how Fortnite skins are now being used as status signalers.
• Examples of teaching media literacy in everyday things.
• Things in everyday life that are in the same vein of manipulation and marketing.
• Helping kids form connections and interpretations of the messages we receive through media, ads, and anything on the internet.
• Giving advice to children that are backed up with research data.

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