Family Live Chat: Help! Tackling Social Media

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Do You Need Help Tackling Social Media for your Loved One? We certainly did!

In this video, parents share their loved ones’ real-life experiences with social media, what they did and what may help guide us. Tune in because learning to navigate this new territory can be daunting and overwhelming.

These Family Chats are led and sponsored by parents and professionals from Parenting Special Needs, Home and Community Positive Behavior Support Network, Parent to Parent USA, and The Partnership for People with Disabilities at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Resources Mentioned in Family Chat

Online Safety:

https://connect.missingkids.org/learn/public/learning_plan/view/17/teaching-online-safety

Social Media Dilemma:

https://www.thesocialdilemma.com/

Parent guide to Internet Safety

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/privacy-and-internet-safety

Internet Safety Resources:

https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/internetsafetyforkids/resources/1/

From our partners at BridgingApps.org

Keeping Kids Safe on iPhones & iPads | Set Up Screentime, Downtime, & Restrictions

We created a printable with images and a video on setting restrictions, using screen time, etc. on Apple devices right after lockdowns started happening. Here is a blog that combines both of those pieces of information:  https://bridgingapps.org/keeping-kids-safe-on-iphones-ipads-set-up-screentime-downtime-restrictions/

Life360

A quick video about downloading, setting up, and using Life360.

Here is the link to the video: https://youtu.be/PzwGDnEJN3s

ALERT: In creating this video I noticed that there are several copycats of this app that use similar names and even the logo. You might want to warn parents to look carefully when shopping in the app store.  Also, I only use the free version and it has a lot of features, however Amy B uses the paid version (she has more driving children in her house, I only have 1 right now).  I would encourage parents to use the free version for a month or so to make sure they like it, I think they will be pleasantly surprised at the amount of free features.

Summer Internet Surfing Keeping Kids Safe Online

https://www.parentingspecialneeds.org/article/summer-internet-surfing-keeping-kids-safe-online/

Digital Safety: An Ongoing Conversation

https://www.parentingspecialneeds.org/article/digital-safety-an-ongoing-conversation/

Screen Addiction! Can You Reset Your Child’s Brain?

https://www.parentingspecialneeds.org/article/screen-addiction-can-you-reset-your-childs-brain/

Watch Our Short Videos about Social Media

Social Media: A Beacon for Special Needs

Social Media: Navigating Risks & Rewards

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