By Jennifer Dylan The technology wellness movement is coming to make you tech healthy—and the messaging just might work on your teen! If you and your child are struggling with technology and a happy home life, it may be time for a wellness reset! A reset in the wellness [...]
A Realistic, 5-Step Framework for Today’s Digital Families By Allie Hunter TL;DR (busy mom edition) Kids use AI every day and often understand it better than adults. Parents do not need to be technical, they just need open communication. Set five simple rules: protect privacy, avoid AI companions, use [...]
By Jennifer Dylan ‘To err is human’ acknowledges that despite doing the best one can, that heartbreak and missteps are a normal part of life. Yet the very normal, if not unavoidable, parts of being human—loss, regret, and trauma—grief of all kinds, are also uncomfortable to both experience and [...]
By Susanne Gurman Halloween may come just once a year, but in the digital world, costumes are worn every day. We adults see this firsthand. Many of the world’s most significant data breaches start the same way: someone pretending to be someone else. A cybercriminal crafts a convincing story, sends [...]
College Board is launching an exciting new initiative aimed at preparing high school students for careers in cybersecurity. The AP Career Kickstart™ Cybersecurity pilot program is a two-course pathway emphasizing professional experience and skill in the technological field. These courses allow students to receive college credit for their hard [...]
By Jennifer Dylan As parents, we can teach our kids valuable life lessons, but the constant stream of apps, games, and social media has changed what "parental control" really means. Kids now spend time in digital spaces where we aren’t always there to guide them. Yet when it comes [...]
The FBI has seen an alarming increase in the number of cases involving children and teens being threatened and coerced into sending explicit images online—a crime called sextortion. Parents and teachers should be aware that teenage boys have been the most common targets in these recent cases. The National [...]
If you are asking yourself, HOW can I protect my children or my students from the risks of AI, good! Savvy Cyber Kids wants you to be involved in your children’s lives, but especially how they use technology as their brains develop. Did you know there is a booming, [...]
When you read about AI, it’s not hard to notice that there are more questions than data, and by a long shot. We, as a society, have not had the opportunity to fully consider the impact of AI that has crept into all aspects of living. We are especially [...]
Sextortion is a type of child sexual exploitation where minors are blackmailed with the threat of public sharing of nude or sexual images of them by a person who demands more images, sexual activity or money from the child. This can happen when a child has shared an image [...]
