A framework for digital resilience: supporting children through an enabling environment
When children use the internet they encounter both risks and opportunities but their ability to self-regulate their media use and avoid the negative effects makes ...more
Inside the digital society: lessons from little laptops
Once again, children are trying to learn from home, often on an inadequate device and with hard-pressed and under-supporting parents struggling to cope. Even for ...more
Parenting for a Digital Future January 2021 roundup
A new year has just begun, many of us find ourselves caught in new or ongoing restrictions of our working and social lives. With schools ...more
Managing the ‘blind spot’ – challenges and solutions for schools in navigating the digital world
Schools have an important role to play in young people’s social and emotional development, as well as their academic learning. Yet, in spite of recent ...more
Can we “flip the script” from counting hours of screen time to distinguishing different types of online experiences?
Our reliance on internet technologies increased as the COVID-19 pandemic progressed and with it concerns from parents, teachers, and governments that our digitally-mediated lives might ...more
The contradictions of digital parenting
As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, a flood of advice about digital technologies is adding to the demands on parents to manage family life, money, health, ...more
Balancing vulnerability, support, and safety: the promotion and protection of disabled children’s digital rights
Individuals with disabilities make up 15% of the global population, or approximately 1 billion people. There are an estimated 93–150 million children with disabilities globally, ...more
How families of children with autism greet the digital future
As families grind into another school year with children spending large chunks of leisure and learning time in front of screens, parents are asking themselves ...more
Separated during lockdown: how offline games can help young children process loss
How can we help young children make sense of long-term separations from friends or family who are self-isolating when we ourselves don’t know how long ...more
Coding as the new Latin? Can code clubs provide a new pathway for low-income children and help close the digital divide?
Digital technologies can offer new opportunities for participation and education but our recent experiment with home learning during the COVID-19 lockdown raised new concerns about ...more
Teen sexting in the media: try not to panic
Young people rarely get to talk about what they think about ‘sexy’ media – the common message is that sexualised media is always harmful and ...more
How can states realise children’s rights in a digital world? Invitation to a consultation
The Committee on the Rights of the Child, the UN body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by its State ...more
Norwegian adolescents and their sexual communication online: findings from the EU Kids Online project
There are many concerns surrounding young people’s sexual communication online (or sexting), most of them coming from a protectionist position. Some concerns relate to the ...more
Raising children in a digital present
After 100 days of ‘lockdown’ few parents would deny the anxiety that exists over our children’s futures: missed schooling, no socialising, uncertainty over ‘the ...more
Playing IT Safe: developing young children’s understanding of digital networks
Teaching tech through play-based learning can help children to start exploring the digital environment and develop their skills and competence from a very young age. ...more
COVID-19 school closures amplify challenges for refugee youth
As students are returning to a very unusual school year, Jessica Kallin highlights for www.parenting.digital the experience of refugee students and their families for whom schooling ...more
‘Is that appropriate?’ Parental judgements about the risks and opportunities of teenagers’ digital media use
The notion of inappropriateness is vague and subjective, yet often used by teachers, cyber safety educators, the media and other authority figures to highlight online ...more
Smartphones and parenting in Fiji: regulation and responsibility
With growth in smartphones and social media use in places such as the global south, we see the emergence of new challenges for the practice ...more
Virtual contact between children and their birth families during ‘lockdown’: unexpected opportunities
The current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is turning many social work practices on their heads and local authorities are making adjustments extremely quickly under significant pressure. ...more
A-level results: why algorithms get things so wrong – and what we can do to fix them
When A-level grades were announced in England, Wales and Northern Ireland a few weeks ago, nearly 40% were lower than teachers' assessments. The grades were ...more
