Talking with your child about outbursts and games

2023-10-09T07:40:49-04:00November 7, 2023|Blog|

By Jacob Aldrich As children are becoming more and more involved in screens and technology, there has also been another situation which has been seeing more and more increasingly: loud, often angry outbursts from otherwise calm and happy children. With the recent popularization of games such as Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, [...]

Why Banning Smartphones at School Sends the Wrong Message to our Kids About Digital Citizenship

2023-07-03T13:29:45-04:00July 18, 2023|Blog|

By Tylar Bloch Schools across the country are tightening up their policies to minimize smartphone use, ranging from full-fledged smartphone bans to stricter guidelines around what constitutes permissible smartphone use during school hours. Research done in 2020 by the National Center for Education Statistics suggests that smartphone bans were implemented [...]

Netflix Docuseries “Web of Lies: Sextortion” Discussion Questions

2023-07-03T13:30:50-04:00April 25, 2023|Blog|

By Ellie Halpert The fourth episode of Netflix’s Docuseries, “Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies, and the Internet,” features one major warning: What you put on the internet stays on the internet. This case takes place in the small town of Belmont, where high schoolers are highly involved in the [...]

How Kids FEEL About Their Online Worlds Is More Important Than What They Do Online

2023-07-03T13:31:03-04:00April 4, 2023|Blog|

At Savvy Cyber Kids, we get a lot of questions about gender based technology habits - if they differ from one another or if there are more risks for one than another. Articles and studies, including a recent one from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, will posit that [...]

Netflix Docuseries “Web of Lies: I’m Not A Nazi” Discussion Questions

2023-07-03T13:31:09-04:00March 23, 2023|Blog|

By Ellie Halpert The third episode of Netflix’s cyber-warning docuseries, “Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies, and the Internet,” features a young woman and her descent into the alt-right and Nazi subculture. The episode discusses the idea that we are in an informational crisis, where it is impossible for [...]

Sextortion & Teens: Why This Topic Should Be On Every Parent’s Radar Now & Forever

2023-07-03T13:31:57-04:00February 2, 2023|Blog|

The dangers that can be found online are, for everyone, but especially for young people, daunting and something to be concerned enough about to revisit as an ongoing conversation within every family, again and again. The sad truth is that you will never run out of real-life news stories [...]

Netflix Docuseries “Web of Lies: Death by SWAT” Discussion Questions

2023-07-03T13:32:06-04:00January 24, 2023|Blog|

By Ellie Halpert The first episode of Netflix’s Docuseries, “Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies, and the Internet,” discusses the unexpected dangers that come with online gaming. Gaming culture is incredibly aggressive and gamers say harsh, cruel things to strangers, or even their friends. In the online gaming community, [...]

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