Ep 111: Digital Citizenship: It's Not Too Late to Help Kids & Teens

Teaching your pre-teens and teens how to maintain a balance between online and offline activities, and to understand the implications of their digital footprints is no small feat.

Susan Hoyer is the Dean of Employment Skills and Technology at Gateway Academy Houston, a school for students with learning differences as they navigate a new world with increasing focus on technology for learning. Sue helps prepare students to enter a job market where technology is an assumed skill, and digital citizenship is the new hidden curriculum.

Listen to this inspiring Parenting With Impact episode with Susan Hoyer about fostering responsible tech use in kids and teens and navigating the digital kingdom.

12 Tips for Parenting a Complex Teen

From the experts at ImpactParents (and the moms of 6 young adults!), we promise you this: it’s not too late. In this FREE guide you’ll learn 12 fool-proof tips to improve conversations and reconnect with your teens so you can guide them to become independent and successful. Parents all over the world have better relationships with their teens using these tools. You can, too!

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

• Managing tech use for children with executive function or attachment struggles
• Gradually incorporating technology in children's lives, considering age and maturity
• Master the progression from restricted to free-range tech usage for emerging teens

Related Links:

• Bark App  
• Common Sense Media  
• Digital Summer Survival Kit

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