Parenting With Technology: A blessing or a virus?

Published on Jun 01, 2016

This slide presentation relates to the changing world of technology and how it impacts parenting strategies.

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Technology has a large impact on the lives that we live, including how we raise our children into this digital world.

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E-Reading

50% of Americans own a device for e-reading. (1)
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Mastery of parents' devices could stunt children's development of deep reading skills. (2)

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Online Monitoring

61% of parents monitor their children online... (3)
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... and 35% know at least one of their children's social media passwords. (3)

Open profile information may become uninformative in the eyes of parents...

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...so they find themselves "...sucked far deeper into monitoring than you ever intended to go." Matthew Ingram (4)

Three quarters of children aged 10-12 years have social media despite the age limits. (5)

Parents now access the kind of information that used to be left unsaid... now nothing is left untyped.

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"All the boundaries have broken down... when their mothers are reading, it's too much information." Sandra Tsing Loh (6)

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Online Posting

81% of children worldwide have online presence before 2. (7)
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Facebook the new worldwide 'brag book'?

Children say they don't want their parents posting about them on social media without their approval first. (8)

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"As these children come of age, they're going to be seeing the digital footprint left in their childhood's wake." Stacey Steinberg (8)

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Parenting Priorities

Values and priorities must be taught at a young age.
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"Your ability to focus on what's important is absolutely fundamental to the life you want to live." Alex Soojung (9)

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On average, children receive their first cellphone at 6 years old. (10)

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Interruptions

A 2.8 second interruption doubles mistakes made. (11)
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What happens when the task at hand is parenting?

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Parenting WithOUT Technology: A blessing ~

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