Our Kids Online
Event description
OUR KIDS ONLINE - hosted by Path Wānaka | Ara ki Wānaka
We want our neighbourhood to be a safe place. Because of the rapidly changing times our children and young people are growing up in - and the mounting challenges and harms they are facing online - we need to start talking about and tackling this as a community.
Therefore Path Wānaka is stoked to have organised Filmmaker, Author and Speaker Rob Cope, producer of the documentary "Our Kids Online" to come and give what promises to be a humorous and eye-opening evening talk to our parent community.
Rob's talk will cover:
- Cyberbullying - How bullies can reach our kids 24/7
- Social media - How social media is affecting the mental health in 3 out of 5 children: FOMO, depression, anxiety
- Gaming and the developing brain – An oversupply of dopamine leading to dopamine deficiency, synaptic pruning, and the underdevelopment of social skills and empathy
- Naked Selfies - The pressure to send nudes from intermediate up through high school
- Online predators - The methods they use, how to spot them
- Online porn vs healthy sexuality - How consuming online pornography as a child or teen can create a sexual template where violence, aggression, and dominance are seen as normal and consent can become very blurry
Solutions
- Filters - Which filters are best and how to install them
- Smartphones - How to lock down a smartphone to make it a safe phone
- Boundaries - How to put good boundaries in place around device use
- 3 golden rules - The 3 golden rules that will keep your kids safe
- Talking to your kids - How to have difficult conversations with your kids
- Challenging our own phone and device usage - Reconnecting as a family
Please feel free to throw an eyeball at the promotional video for Our Kids Online, here.
Get in quick to secure one of the first 50 free tickets, otherwise $10 per ticket no refunds. Doors open 6pm for some light kai and beverage (included in ticket price), with the presentation starting at 6:30pm.
This topic is massive, and we would request at least one adult from each family attend. Rob and the team from Our Kids Online are gifting every parent who attends this event a one-year complimentary subscription to "The Big Reconnect", a cybersafety parenting course designed specifically for NZ families which usually retails for $99 per family. See here for course details.
"We need to tackle this as a community so that all of our kids are safe. When I protected my kids online, I also protected yours, so please, please protect your kids online so that you are also protecting mine." - Rob Cope