Social Media Parent Chat (2016)
Social Media: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (2015)

Articles of Interest

• 8 Digital Skills We Must Teach Our Children (DQ Institute)
  
• Beyond ‘turn it off’: How to advise families on media use (AAP)
• Answers to Your Questions About the Dark Side of the Internet (Mozilla)
• Are you raising a digital heir? (Kim Wilkens)
• Is all screen time equal? (Kim Wilkens)
• Foiling Fake News with Fourth Graders​ (Sarah FitzHenry & Kim Wilkens)
  
• 7/8 Digital Life Skills (Kim Wilkens)
  

Acceptable Use Policy at the School

Surveys Say!

• The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Tweens and Teens
• Teens, Technology and Friendships (Pew Research Center)
• Teens, social media & privacy (Pew Research Center)​

News/Resources

• 3 Teen Trends in Social Media (Common Sense Media)
• ​8 Day Digital Detox (Mozilla)
• A Thin Line (MTV)
  
• Connecting Families (Common Sense Media)
• Family Contract example (SafeKids.com)
• It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens (danah boyd)
• It’s 10 P.M. Do You Know What Apps Your Children Are Using? (New York Times, 9/17)
• ​Like. Flirt. Ghost: A Journey in the Social Media Lives of Teens (Wired, 8/16)
• Little Minds and Big Screen (2/18)
• ​Online Safety for Families
• ​Teen Online Safety Basics
• The seventh-grader’s sext was meant to impress him. Then he shared it. It nearly destroyed her (The Washington Post, 6/16)

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Safer Searching at Home
Ensure Safe Search is enabled for various web browsers on devices your children have access to:

• Google Safe Search
• YouTube Safety Mode
• Yahoo Safe Search

More parental control options:

• Everything You Need to Know About Parental Controls
• Five content filters suitable for both home and business​​