Digital Parenting Sprint
- Age group: Ages 7-12
- Lectures: 1 x 75-minute video course
- Broken into: 8 short sections (approx. 10 mins each)
- Reviews of important apps: 12
- Parent tools to download: 6
- Parent quiz / online test: 1
- Language: English
What parents learn in this course:
- What are your kids dealing with online that you may not see?
- 4 things that may be conflicting with your family's values
- The Inside Track: What kids tell us that most parents do not know
- How to know if your child has a problem online?
- 12 apps most popular right now - what to know, and what to do?
- The Big Four: TikTok, Instagram, AmongUs, Discord - a special focus
- Managing screen time: Obsessive use, addiction and focus
- Sexuality online: Strangers, sexting, sextortion and pornography
- Digital potential and exploration - guiding kids to excel online
Watch our short (45 second) explainer video
Dear Parents
Tired of the fear-mongering around social media and apps, and want a realistic, frank and practical route to connect with, guide and educate your kids – whilst putting in place some robust boundaries to support your approach?
MySociaLife, the leaders in digital life skills, online safety and social media literacy training in South Africa, brings together feedback from the four audiences they teach – students, parents, teachers and mental health professionals – to deliver a practical and honest training course for parents of pre-teens and teens.
Our parting shot
The program helps parents to stop the vehicle and take an honest look at the difficulties that teens face without showing it, and then charting a new path – and offering new tools to parents – to navigate a digital future that will not relent or abate.
In working with 4000 students, we remind parents of the reactivity and impulsiveness of the adolescent and share what we have learnt first-hand on a weekly basis – new apps, dares, hoaxes, challenges, and give parents the vantage point to approach these calmly to limit the unnecessary debates, disconnection or even aggression that some parents are experiencing.
With kids enamoured by technology, we will need a fresh start to bridge the technological and generational divide, and provide valuable insights and tools to help your children who may be dealing with varying from self-esteem issues, obsessive use, unwanted approaches from strangers, getting into trouble at school or reputational harm, online privacy hacks, external cybersecurity threats, and many different types of surreptitious cyber bullying.
The feedback on this presentation has been rated as A-Grade consistently due to the depth and diversity of content, allowing parents a window into a world they otherwise do not fully understand.
**The latest version of our parent program launches April 17, 2021
How does it work exactly?
Requirements
- Internet connection, and a device (smartphone, tablet or computer) to play the videos within the program, and take the multiple choice quiz.
Ready to move your school in a new direction?
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Would you like your child to learn these digital life skills, and become much safer and smarter online?
Email us on: info@mysocialife.com
Critical thinking
online
With so many falsehoods and traps online, how can learners discern right from wrong, safe from dangerous, and true from false, and put in place a necessary pause to choose more wisely?
Cyberbullying
& empathy
Social media, messaging, anonymous “Ask Me Anything” forums, and gaming can be triggering, causing aggressive, often unconscious, behaviour – and disconnection from the long-term harm from our flaming, trolling, shaming online.
Digital identity, and footprint
Understanding the internet keeps a record of your published content, hashtags, images, videos and account tags (forever), it poses a key question: “After a decade of studying, and a bright future ahead of you, how do you appear online, when searched?”
Understanding privacy & settings for platforms
Many students are not phased by privacy concerns. We reveal the reality of manipulation and influence by a powerful and divisive algorithm. We show students how much there is to privacy & how to set up carefully.
Mental health, brain-body connection, & focus
Learners can self-regulate better on devices and social media when they understand the connection between brain and body, and its impact on mental health, focus, mood and sleep.
Cybersecurity, security, scams & bait
Cybercrime has become on of the most significant threats to economies in recent years. But do students understand the threats to their safety from scams, clickbait and sextortion?
Sexuality online, sexting & sextortion
Sexuality is more than gender or sex. Unpacking the latest social influences and risks online – usually in a bid to gain followers or income – is key to a healthier relationship with our ‘self’.
Digital potential, the future of work, and 4IR
There are so many opportunities to excel online when shown the way – not just coders, but creators, technologists, scientists. We reveal where to go deeper and advance quickly, differentiating themselves.
