Digital content consumption – example: Instagram

  The digital content our children consume in an almost endless loop comes in a myriad of forms and formats.  In order to illustrate WHAT your child might be seeing, let's take the example of one of the most popular apps among tweens…
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Today Show: ‘Digital kidnapping’ alert: How to protect your family from online predators

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SUMMARY: "Parents Michelle and Rhys thought that TODAY national investigative correspondent Jeff Rossen and the Rossen Reports team were doing a general story about social media. What they didn't know was that cyber safety expert Jesse Weinberger…
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Deadly Online Challenges Part 1 of 2 – Mel Robbins Show – Feb 2020 – Blue Whale Challenge, Choking Challenge

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SUMMARY: This episode of Mel Robbins focuses on online challenges which seek to prey on children - the show features four families whose children died by suicide after playing these "games." The daughter of the fifth family survived, after…
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Deadly Online Challenges Part 2 of 2 – Mel Robbins Show – Feb 2020 – Blue Whale Challenge, Choking Challenge

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Continuation of Part 1 of 2 Steps parents can take to keep their children safer online. Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube
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Managing a Child’s Device Part 2 of 2 – New Day Cleveland

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* Discussion on limiting app usage. * Music.ly  (now called TikTok) * Live-streaming * Live.ly * Houseparty
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Managing a Child’s Device – Part 1 of 2 – New Day Cleveland

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Part 1 of 2: Discussing managing your child's interaction with devices. * Family contract, setting limits * Saying 'no' to your children * Parental complicity
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