The Parent's Guide to Texting, Facebook, and Social Media


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The parent's guide provides awareness, solutions, and preventative resources to keep your children safe and secure online--P. [4] of cover.




Talking Back to Facebook


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Includes discussion questions for parents and teachers.




The Modern Parent's Guide to Facebook and Social Networks


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Social networks such as Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram have completely changed the way that parents and kids share information and interact online. But with so many different new services and features emerging, how can you stay ahead of this ever-changing technology - and keep your family safe? The ultimate guide to navigating today's quickly-evolving social media landscape, The Modern Parent's Guide to Facebook and Social Networks decodes the world of social networking for today's family. Featuring: - Expert Tips and Tricks: How to Keep Kids Safe on Social Networks - Ways to Protect Your Privacy and Online Identity - Comprehensive Guides - Today's Most Popular Social Media Services - Inside Advice: Online Safety, Privacy, Digital Citizenship and More - Addressing Common Threats - Cyberbullying, Harassment, Identity Theft, etc. - Benefits and Dangers: Key Social Media Facts and Insights




A Parent's Guide to Understanding Social Media


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With each passing day, teenagers' lives become increasingly intertwined with social media. How can you help your child make wise decisions and remain safe online? How can you stay informed and involved in healthy ways?




The Parent's Guide to Facebook


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NEWLY UPDATED JANUARY 2012, includes the new Facebook Timeline design. Your children are playing in an international playground with more than 800 million strangers. Over 19 million U.S. children between the ages of 13 and 17 are registered Facebook users. Just as you wouldn't leave them alone on a physical playground, you need to watch and guide them on the virtual one too. The Parent's Guide to Facebook: Tips and Strategies to Protect Your Children on the World's Largest Social Network will: - Give you step-by-step instructions to set up your Facebook profile - Lead you through the new Facebook privacy settings including the new Timeline design - Reveal the top privacy concerns every parent needs to know about Facebook - Show you how to block bullies and protect your child from bullies on Facebook - Reveal the dangers of NOT educating your child on appropriate posting - Reveal the simple errors that could expose you to identity theft and show you how to avoid making them - Share the fun, friendship and social engagement available to Facebook users hwo know how to enjoy themselves safely. The Parent's Guide to Facebook is a step-by-step guide focusing on using Facebook as another window into your children's life, friends, attitudes and online actions. Facebook is the world's largest social network. To make sure people enjoy connecting with their friends and loved ones while protecting their privacy online, just follow this simple guide. Let the author walk you through the steps from the start of the sign up process all the way through setting up a group, uploading pictures, writing status updates, and do's and don'ts of privacy on Facebook.




We All Looked Up


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The lives of four high school seniors intersect weeks before a meteor is set to pass through Earth's orbit, with a 66.6% chance of striking and destroying all life on the planet.




Parent's Guide to Coping with Autism


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This is an essential guide for parents and carers coping with children with autism. When Sarah Ziegel's twin boys were diagnosed with autism, aged almost three, she realized that there was very little practical information about what to do. When her next two children were also diagnosed with the condition, she was even more determined to put that lack of information right. This book is the result of Sarah's experiences of dealing with autism in the family. While covering personal aspects such as coping emotionally with a diagnosis, the book also tackles practical matters, such as education and the EHCP process, how to get help and support, and also considers the medical side of autism. Written by a former nurse, and full-time mother and carer, A Parent's Guide to Coping with Autism is a highly sensitive and professional guide and is the book you will want to reach for when faced with a diagnosis, or if you simply want to find out more about the condition.




Screen-Smart Parenting


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As a practicing child psychiatrist and mother of three, Jodi Gold has a unique understanding of both the mind-boggling benefits and the serious downsides of technology. Dr. Gold weaves together scientific knowledge and everyday practical advice to help you foster your child's healthy relationship to technology, from birth to the teen years. You'll learn: *How much screen time is too much at different ages. *What your kids and teens are actually doing in all those hours online. *How technology affects social, emotional, and cognitive development. *Which apps and games build smarts and let creativity shine. *How your own media habits influence your children. *What you need to know about privacy concerns, cyberbullying, and other dangers. *Ways to set limits that the whole family can live with.




A Parent's Guide to Social Media


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It looks like social media is here to stay. So rather than being afraid of it, how can we train our children to use it well? This guide will help answer questions like: What’s different about how Gen Z uses social media? What do teens think about their social media use? What’s good about social media? What’s bad about it? How does social media shape us? This big-picture approach to social media will help you start the conversation and show you and your teen how to approach social media with wisdom, moderation, and a desire to honor God through it. Parent Guides are your one-stop shop for biblical guidance on teen culture, trends, and struggles. In 15 pages or fewer, each guide tackles issues your teens are facing right now—things like doubts, the latest apps and video games, mental health, technological pitfalls, and more. Using Scripture as their backbone, these Parent Guides offer compassionate insight to teens’ world, thoughts, and feelings, as well as discussion questions and practical advice for impactful discipleship.




Raising Children in a Digital Age


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As featured on The Steve Wright Show on Radio 2. Equipping children to thrive and survive in the digital jungle Digital technology, social media, and online gaming are now a universal part of childhood. But are you worried about what your children might be doing online? What they might come across by accident? Or who might try to contact them through Facebook or Twitter? Whether you are a parent, grandparent, teacher, or youth leader, you will want children to get the most out of new technology. But how do you tread the tightrope of keeping them safe online, whilst enabling them to seize and benefit from the wealth of opportunities on offer? Bex Lewis, an expert in social media and digital innovation, has written a much-needed and timely book full of sound research, practical tips, and realistic advice on how to keep children safe online. She puts the Internet scare stories and distorted statistics into context and offers clear and sensible guidelines to help children thrive in the digital jungle. Media coverage includes: BBC Radio 2: The Steve Wright Show, BBC Radio Tees, BBC Radio Newcastle, ITV Tyne Tees television , Real Radio, Sun FM, The Durham Times, The Northern Echo, The Sunderland Echo, Premier Radio.