Safe Online Info That Clicks: Keeping Kids Safe in a Technological World

Come join Merlyn Horton for an informative, engaging and useful look at parenting online today and some immediately accessible tools and techniques to manage our current challenges. A custom website, with links to all resources and tools referenced in the webinar will be provided to access to all.

“Parenting Online and Parental Controls Online”

In this workshop, Merlyn will cover:

1. Implications and effects of technology on children

• Social emotional development and screen time
• Sleep/presence/focus are all affected by just the presence of devices
• Children, consent and permanent digital reputations
• Distracted parenting

2. The challenges, and suggestions for supporting parents to make good on and offline choices.

• Challenges to setting limits on technology
• Soft strategies to set device limits
• Hard strategies to set device limits

3. Good content and online ideas

• Positive websites and online resources
• Parenting tools online
• Promoting positive online learning

Tickets are $0-20. Please pay what you can afford. All donations are greatly appreciated to cover the costs of the speaker.