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Raising Kids & Teens in a Screen World Seminar

Dr Kristy Goodwin, a digital parenting educator, author and researcher (& mum who also deals with her kids’ techno-tantrums), delivers research-based information to parents about the overwhelming and confusing task of raising young kids and adolescents in a digital world. Dr Kristy arms parents with simple strategies to manage screen-time at home without tears and tantrums and without having to constantly fret about their online safety. Kristy will explain, using neuroscience, why our kids and teens become infatuated (not ‘addicted’) to technology, why they find it hard to switch off devices (and throw techno-tantrums) and how we can help our kids and teens develop healthy digital habits. Kristy will share the current risks to kids’ online safety (the 3Ps- predators, pornography and peers in the form of cyber-bullying) and will explore why we need to avoid using screen-time as a reward or punishment tool. In this engaging seminar Kristy shares realistic advice about how to ensure screens don’t compromise our kids’ and teens’ physical health (sleep, physical activity, vision, hearing and posture), emotional health (cyber-bullying, cyber-safety, use of social media) and learning (the academic costs of multi-tasking). Kristy empowers parents with simple ideas and strategies to help them be the pilot of the digital plane.

Dr Kristy will provide two opportunities for parents to ask their ‘digital dilemmas’. Come along and ditch your guilt and guesswork about raising kids and teens in a digital world.

24 September, 2018
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Br R J Wallace Hall, St Edmund’s College

Buy your tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/raising-kids-teens-in-a-screen-world-tickets-48904838689