Parents' job, it says, is to help kids develop a finely tuned conscience, and to turn to it for guidance in real life or online
Kids know their privacy has been violated if their parents read their texts or post about their private moments on Facebook, but big privacy often escapes their concern. — Dreamtime/TNS, begins with a clear-eyed message for those of us raising or shaping young people in this moment.Heitner, a screen media expert and educator, has spoken with hundreds of children, parents, educators and researchers on the topics of privacy, social media, tracking apps, sexting – you name it.
“Too much data can be anxiety-provoking for parents,” she said. “And it’s also weirdly not any data.”Readers will bring their own lenses and values and knowledge of their children’s unique personalities, challenges and habits to Heitner’s work. The book honours that and doesn’t feel overly prescriptive. But it does invite us to interrogate the messages we’re overtly or subtly sending our kids – and whether those messages are serving our larger goal of raising happy, healthy, resilient kids.
Deal honestly with your child, Heitner says, with a focus on helping them make choices with integrity. “We really want to emphasise do no harm,” Heitner said. “Not because your principal might find out. Because we don’t want what we post or say or do to cause harm – to ourselves or to anyone else.”Heitner devotes a chapter to sexting, and it’s an eye-opening and important one – why kids do it, how many kids are likely doing it, why our discomfort around it isn’t particularly useful.
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