Resources for Parenting Digital Kids

• Keep up with digital media changes with a weekly email containing reviews and advice from Common Sense Media


• Cellphone Contract between parents and children - expectations and responsibilities from cyberbullying.us


• Internet Use Contract between parents and children - expectations and responsibilities from cyberbullying.us


• Raise awareness by tracking daily screen time usage

• Find product descriptions and reviews on cnet's site - search for “monitoring software”.


• Review product comparisons for internet filter software and Facebook monitoring tools


• Learn about cellphone parental controls


• Setting up parental controls on the iPhone and IPod Touch


• Software that allows parents to monitor children's text messages: My Mobile Watchdog and Mobile Spy

• Facebook Tips for Parents - online class for understanding Facebook


• What parents need to know about Facebook privacy settings


• Beyond Facebook - Social mapping applications like Loopt, foursquare, and Gowalla are inappropriate for kids.

• PBS Frontline's 90 minute documentary on digital_nation: life on the virtual frontier


• One hour documentary on video game addiction by CBC's the fifth estate


• Short 4 minute video on cyberbullying along with some parenting tips on Common Sense Media

• Norton Family Online reporting sex or porn was in the #4 spot for most searched for terms by children.
  Interview with Kathy Slattengren on Northwest Cable News about the report of children searching for sex online.


• Report on Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies by the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, 12/31/08

• Dr. Ross Greene's site on Collaborative Problem Solving including videos demonstrating the ideas


• Example Collaborative Problem Solving dialogs - one the wrong way and one the right way

• Online Gamers Anonymous - for people trying to recover from gaming addiction


• Video Game Addiction – resources for parents and teens


• reSTART Internet Addiction Recovery Program located in Fall City, WA

• Seattle Public Schools's Middle School Cyberbullying Curriculum (9 lessons)
  Mike Donlin, the Senior Program Consultant for this curriculum wrote "They are free to be used by any and all who are working on keeping kids safe online. The only "ask" would be that if you have suggestions, or if you have something to add, that you send it our way so that we can share it with others.