Thanks to Devorah Heitner, PhD and Christy Keating of The Heartful Parent Collective, and all those who joined us live for “Growing Up in Public: Milestones of Growing Up in a Digital Age”

It felt like we were just getting started with Q&A and we know we could have spent way more time chatting! We appreciate those of you who submitted questions prior to the event and everyone who asked questions and shared resources while on the call.

A couple of take-aways that our team wrote down:

• When evaluating an app for our kids consider

  • Safety features within the app

  • The level of supervision I would want over my child’s use of the app

  • Milestones necessary in development for the app

• Benefits of some social media apps

• Chat platforms that their school or organizations utilize

• Civic tools 

• Proactively following select thought leaders

• Cultivate a culture of consent at home to lay the groundwork for kids to understand consent on social media

• Teach our kids that they are being targeted with specific content.

  • This is not because of something they have clicked on or searched for, but rather because social media platforms know a lot about who they are. Our kids can counter some of this by blocking and by proactively following select groups/people.

Event Recording

Here are some resources mentioned by Devorah:

• Devorah’s Blog

  • “They Only Change When They’re Afraid”: Frances Haugen on Kids, Instagram, and The Social Reckoning”

  • “ChatGPT is Not Your Child’s Friend”

• Common Sense Media | Guide to Chat GPT

• Common Sense Media | Article on Chat GPT Teen Mode

• Book: Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before They Start High School by Michelle Icard

• Book: Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater

• Pew Research Center - lots of info on tech, social media & median age of phone use with kids

  • “What we know about internet use, smartphone ownership and digital divides in the U.S.”

  • “How Parents Manage Screen Time for Kids”

For more from Christy Keating check the following links:

• Website: The Heartful Parent Collective

• Blog: https://theheartfulparent.com/news/

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Some Website dropped into chat by audience member:

• EndTAB (End Tech-Enabled Abuse)