Digital FaMilies Podcast
Leonie Smith & Guests
50 episodes with some of the world's most experienced parenting experts to help your family maintain a healthy and safe balance in the digital world.
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Gaming and screentime overuse
In this Digital Families podcast, Brad Marshall, "The Unplugged Psychologist", and Leonie Smith, the Digital Families Counsellor chat about the signs and symptoms of problematic Internet Use. They discuss the treatment that is available and what to do if your child isn't necessarily "addicted" but you can't get them off their device.
Tracking your kids online?
Are you tracking the kids on their phones? Maybe your kids are just on screens too much after lockdown?
In this week's "Digital Families" Podcast, I speak with Sonia Livingstone, a professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, who is also the co-author with Alicia Blum-Ross of the recently released book based on her research "Parenting for a Digital Future: How Hopes and Fears About Technology Shape Children’s Lives". About parental controls, screen time vs free play and tracking.
“FROM HIGH SCHOOL FAILURE TO AWARD WINNING AUTHOR”
From High School failure to award winning author. Josh Langley was told he would amount to nothing in life, having failed high school (twice) and being unemployed for several years, but that didn’t stop Josh from becoming a multi award-winning radio copywriter and award-winning children’s author. In this latest episode of the Digital Families Podcast I talk with Author and public speaker Josh Langley about how digital technology can both hinder and help with children's development. Josh also talks about his love of books and how to get children away from the screens and back to books.
How Abuse Survivor/Turned Police Officer Is Helping Kids
In this hard hitting podcast I talk with Kelly about how abusers groom children online, what language do they use. How they connect with children and what can parents do to help them children be more open with them about being contacted by abusers and finally how to prevent such contact or deal with it.
Resilience, Optimism, Confidence with Claire Eaton teen Coach
This weeks guest on "Digital Families" Podcast is Claire Eaton, a speaker, youth coach and author of four books for teens, “ROC and RISE” “You are awesome”, “Hello High School” and its companion Planner.
In this weeks podcast we talk about Claires focus on helping children with Resilience, Optimism, and Confidence. These are traits that we often hear about being necessary in our children, particularly when it comes to dealing with the online world.
Kids Leaving Data Trails Online
In todays podcast Author Amy Jussel and Leonie talk about how children need to learn about their digital footprint online. How they can reveal private information about themselves and their friends online and how to be careful about what they share. Amy offers parents some tips on how to better educate their children about their digital footprints and how to navigate the internet with more awareness.
Kids On Social Media With Training Wheels On
In this podcast Claire Orange and I chat about helping primary school children learn to navigate social media safely. Claire developed DiGii Social to help give students in year 5 and 6 an experience of what it is like to be on social media with strict moderation and safety.
Online Gaming Scammers - Targeting Children
In this episode Paul and I talk about the very difficult issue of children being scammed via online game platforms where there is the risk for losing large amounts of money for families via the virtual currency available on games like Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft.
"The New Teen Age"
My guest on this weeks Digital Families Podcast is Jo Lamble clinical Psychologist and co Author of the book “The New Teen Age” how to support todays tweens and teens to become healthy happy adults. We talk about sleep overs and the tricky conversations around confiscating phones at sleep overs, how to do it kindly and with safety. I really loved this book. Jo and Ginni's practical down to earth non alarmist approach is refreshing and non parent blaming.
The Beacon App - Child Safety App
My guest today is Bec Nguyen from “Telethon Kids Institute” Project Manager of the “Beacon App” a cyber safety educational app designed to keep parents and carers up to date with trusted, tailored information, to help keep their kids safe online.