Great Reads

Parenting in the Digital Age:

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• Screens That Eat Children: Living, parenting and teaching in an age of digital devices by Ross Parker

• Website: The Anxious Generation: https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/

• A guide to the most popular apps and gaming platforms

• How Much Screentime is OK for my Kids? 

• I'm a teacher - and this is why I'm not giving my son a smartphone yet, by Lola Okolosie, The Guardian

• The Art of Screen Time by Anya Kamenetz 

• ScreenWise by Devorah Heitner 

• First Phone: A Child's Guide to Digital Responsibility, Safety and Etiquette by Catherine Pearlman

• Media Moms and Digital Dads by Yalda T. Uhls 

• it’s complicated: the social lives of networked teens, by Dana Boyd - free pdf 

• Media and Young Minds, American Academy of Pediatrics

• The Overprotected Kid, by Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic

• Safe on Social - Free Resources for Parents

• Raising Digitally Responsible Youth - A Guide for Parents and Caregivers, from Safer Schools Together (explains how the most common social media apps work)

• You Don't Need to Surveil Your Kids to Protect Them on Social Media

• What is Discord?

• Discord Safety Center

• Protect Kids Online - Operated by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection

• Waituntil8th.org - a pledge that empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until at least 8th grade.

• Raising Digitally Responsible Youth - A Parents Guide, BC Ministry of Education

• An Introduction to Vault Apps

• Bullying is on the rise since the end of COVID, CBC News

• Bullying Canada Website

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Health and Safety:

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• Artificial Intelligence used to create fake nude photos

• March 2023 article on social media causing mental health crisis in girls. 

• Parental stress increases with screen time use

• Social media linked to depression in teens

• Aggression and impulsivity increase with social media use

• Smartphones and Social Media are Destroying Children's Mental Health - Financial Times

• AAP - The impact of screens on the health and development of children from 0 to 5 years of age

• The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic is International, Part 1: The Anglosphere

• Excessive screen time is changing our eyes faster than we can blink

• Setup a Sleep Focus on iOS or use Bedtime mode on Android.

• Manage screentime with Apple’s Screentime settings, or Android’s Digital Wellbeing settings.

• What to do if criminals get ahold of your intimate photos

• Social Media Addiction Statistics

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education:

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• A Parent’s Guide to Discussing AI

• Policy guidance on AI for children

• How will AI technologies affect child development?

• Children and AI - Where are the opportunities and risks?

• Guide to ChatGPT for Parents and Caregivers

• Children & Artificial Intelligence

• Machine Learning for Kids – Guide for Parents

• This is how to help young people navigate the opportunities and risks of AI and digital technology

• The Role of AI in Children’s Education: A Parent’s Perspective

• AI guide for parents

• Parent’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ChatGPT

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Family Agreements:

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• Common Sense Media’s Family Media Agreement

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Gaming:

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• Check out parent reviews of various games at  Common Sense Media reviews.

• The game rating system at ESRB also has some parent tips and tools, an app for researching games, and resources for learning how to use the parent controls on a variety of gaming systems

• Roblox: The childrens game with a sex problem

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Politics, Technology and Social Media:

• Instagram ignored the vast majority of abusive comments toward female politicians: CBC News

• UNESCO education report advises appropriate use of technology in schools

• Netherlands: Phone ban announced to stop school disruptions

• USA: Several states sue Meta (facebook and Instagram parent company) for addictive features and mental health harms

• I was addicted to social media - now I'm sueing Big Tech

• I blew the whistle on Meta, now I won't work again

• Mobile phone ban in regions of Spain leads to reduced bullying and improved academic results

• Canadian Federal Government Working on Law to Combat Online Sextortion

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Terms and Conditions of Various Social Media and Gaming Platforms:

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• Twitch & Snapchat Terms & Conditions Extremely Difficult to Read & Understand

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