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You can read through this guide full of fantastic advice and loaded with parent-friendly tips, and you can plan all sorts of digital parenting interventions for your family (including your significant other), but the key themes are right here: Communicate with your children Continue the conversation Critical thinking is invaluable Confidence in your parenting Your children need to understand technology these days and the more they engage online, the more risks they will inevitably encounter. How can they use technology safely if they are not shown how to use it? Coupled with this question is the dilemma of finding that balance between online activities and essential offline activities that are important for your child's development and well-being. Your job as a Digital Parent is to help your children become resilient; to help them bounce back from some of the online craziness; to help them understand what is right and wrong; and to provide them with a moral compass to navigate the highway. You already do this offline. Now bring it online.

This short guide is for busy parents and caregivers in the digital age who are looking to get up to speed on the basics in online safety and digital citizenship. In concise terms and easy-to-read reference sheets, the guide provides the key essentials in digital parenting, such as understanding privacy, personal information, password security as well as cyberbullying, digital citizenship and social media for good.The topics, solutions and commentaries are all based on Elizabeth Milovidov's work as an eSafety consultant and Independent Expert on Digital Parenting and Children's Rights and Internet and are designed to provide pertinent information and references - at a glance. Resources, recommended reading and digital parenting ideas are shared in each section in order to further your knowledge should wish you to delve deeper. Dr. Milovidov provides instant tools for digital parents . . . a collection of best practices from North America and Europe to keep digital parents on track during these sometimes stressful, yet always exciting technological times.

With the increasing interconnectivity of Internet and social media, along with the newest technological innovations, our children and young people are living in fantastic times. But for parents and caregivers, the times may not always seem so fantastic as we struggle to protect our children from all the online craziness. And the video-sharing platform YouTube, for example, with its wide range in content, can be full of online silliness ranging from the perfectly mundane cat videos to the "oh my gosh, how can that be online?" Insanity. Your job as a parent is to help your child manage that content and reap the benefits of this ultra-creative platform, while avoiding the content that is "cray cray." This guidebook should help you stem the flow of that craziness, and yet still allow your children to benefit from all the cool things that YouTube provides. Read up and safe-surf those videos at your leisure.

This short workbook is for busy parents and caregivers in the digital age who are looking to get up to speed on the basics in online safety and digital citizenship. In concise terms and easy-to-read reference sheets, the guide provides the key essentials in digital parenting, such as understanding privacy, personal information, password security as well as cyberbullying, digital citizenship and social media for good. The topics, solutions and commentaries are all based on Elizabeth Milovidov's work as an eSafety consultant and Independent Expert on Digital Parenting and Children's Rights and Internet and are designed to provide pertinent information and references - at a glance. Resources, recommended reading and digital parenting ideas are shared in each section in order to further your knowledge should wish you to delve deeper. Dr. Milovidov provides instant tools for digital parents . . . a collection of best practices from North America and Europe to keep digital parents on track during these sometimes stressful, yet always exciting technological times.

Understanding what your tween or teen is doing online will help you understand why they want to be online. This guide empowers you to find the good things in Internet, technology and social media, while hopefully reducing some of the riskier things. Listen to the answers, discover their online persona and activities and then guide your tween or teen as they re-discover their online world with your family values. This guide contains questions to help you begin a dialogue with your child while also providing you insight into their online activities. The questions can be tweaked for your family style, but they cover a broad range of items such as selfies, geo-localization, bullying and pornography.

Are you concerned about how much time your child spends in front of a screen? In this pioneering and practical book, Elizabeth Milovidov, lawyer and eSafety consultant, offers a new approach to achieving screen balance in your home by providing ideas and best practices for "digital parents." As an independent expert for the Council of Europe, Dr. Milovidov works on the front line of digital parenting where she researches solutions on issues related to Internet, technology and social media. Added to this professional background, she is also the mother of two tech savvy little boys and has first-hand knowledge of the challenges of parenting in the digital age. Screen Balance Inspiration, is designed to provide you with ideas on balancing your family's screen time and device usage and you will: -Create a family log to chart your screen usage -Be able to identify problem time frames for your children -Identify best practices to create screen balance in your home -Find age-appropriate inspiration for children, tweens or teens -Receive tips on screen time and child development and a healthy childhood -Be inspired to create new activities for family time -Learn of online resources for further reading In today's high tech world, screen limits and screen balance are topics of concern as pediatricians, psychologists, child protection experts, academics and other professionals research and perform studies on the effects of screen time on our children. At this early stage in the game, the experts do not have all the answers, but all agree that moderation is key. Screen Balance Inspiration will help you find that moderation for your family.

Our youth today are "playing doctor" online without always understanding that photos, text messages and videos - indeed anything put online - can last a lifetime. This guide empowers you to talk about those tough issues so that you can explain the repercussions of even a small online error in judgment to your teen. By asking the questions that you don't want to think about, let alone verbalize, you will be able to seize the moment to (non-judgmentally and calmly) talk through these tough issues with your teen. This guide provides you with an intermediary to help you ask those tough questions that you always wanted to ask, but just didn't know how to ask. Use these questions as talking points for you to begin a "safe sex, safe tech, safe content" talk with your teen.

Connect With Your Kids is part of the Conversation Starter Guide series designed to provide you with questions to get a conversation started about your child's online activities. These questions are useful for children 10 and under and do not include references to sexting, pornography or other sex-related topics. You will find those tricky questions in the Discover Your Digital Tween or Teen guide.

This short workbook is for busy parents and caregivers in the digital age who are interested in understanding how our young people are communicating online. From emojis to acronyms that would baffle a hieroglyphics expert, young people are creating their own cyber slang. This guide proposes to decipher some of the terms and underlines that parents need to have an open and regular dialogue with their children about their online activities - no matter what language the children are using. Elizabeth Milovidov has gathered expressions and acronyms for various online sources, as well as going to the source: students and young people. The result is a collation of cyber slang grouped by category.

This short workbook is for busy parents and caregivers in the digital age who are interested in understanding how our young people are communicating online. From emojis to acronyms that would baffle a hieroglyphics expert, young people are creating their own cyber slang. This guide proposes to decipher some of the terms and underlines that parents need to have an open and regular dialogue with their children about their online activities - no matter what language the children are using. Elizabeth Milovidov has gathered expressions and acronyms for various online sources, as well as going to the source: students and young people. The result is a collation of cyber slang grouped by category.