The 3 Ms of Fearless Digital Parenting: Proven Tools to Help You Raise Smart and Savvy Online Kids

by Carrie Rogers-Whitehead

Overview

How can we protect our kids online—and teach them to protect themselves?
 
Do you feel overwhelmed with technology in your home? Do headlines about this app or that website make you feel anxious and undecided as a parent? Do you get advice from many experts—but still feel unclear on what to do?
 
This book unpacks the “3 Ms” of parenting in the digital age, a proven approach used with thousands of parents through the work of Digital Respons-Ability and its founder, Carrie Rogers-Whitehead. When Carrie first started working in the field of digital citizenship, she found significant gaps in how digital parenting was taught. Not only were parents not informed enough around technology, they also didn’t understand child developmental stages. Parents’ expectations for their children were unrealistic because they didn’t know how online responsibility changes at different ages, as children’s brains change. From this realization, Carrie developed the 3 Ms—three approaches to digital parenting, based on specific age ranges:

• Model (ages 0-8)
• Manage (ages 8-13)
• Monitor (ages 13-18)

By teaching parents how to change their approach to digital responsibility based on the developmental stage of their child, she has seen significant success in fostering happier and healthier relationships between parents and kids, as well as safer tech use by kids at all ages. This book presents Carrie’s approach in an accessible, easy-to-implement manner, giving all parents the opportunity to develop better tech use in their own homes and families, and to parent confidently and without fear.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781510763722
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	08/03/2021
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	699,450
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Carrie Rogers-Whitehead is the founder of Digital Respons-Ability, a mission-based company that teaches digital citizenship to thousands of parents, students, and educators across the world. She regularly presents on technology, online safety, education, and parenting. Carrie is also the author of Digital Citizenship: Teaching Strategies and Practice from the Field and a mother who applies what she teaches with her own family at home in Utah.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Parenting without Fear 1

Chapter 2 The 3 Ms of Digital Parenting 9

Chapter 3 The First M: Model (Ages 0-8) 25

Chapter 4 The Second M: Manage (Ages 8-13) 49

Chapter 5 The Third M: Monitor (Ages 13-18) 65

Chapter 6 Online Safety 93

Chapter 7 Gaming 133

Chapter 8 Online Communication and Media Literacy 167

Chapter 9 Online Opportunities 197

Appendix 209

References 213

Index 227

Editorial Reviews

08/01/2021

Rogers-Whitehead (Digital Citizenship) is the founder of Digital Respons-Ability, an organization that teaches digital citizenship to parents, students, and educators. Here she addresses not only protecting children as they venture online but teaching them to be proactive and protect themselves. She sets out three modes of digital parenting that are based on a child's age and developing brain: Model (ages 0–8), Manage (ages 8–13), and Monitor (ages 13–18). Each mode helps parents navigate varied platforms, like online gaming and social media, and the challenges and risks inherent to them (including pornography, guarding against predators, and protecting identity while online). Rogers-Whitehead doesn't neglect the internet's benefits for children; she discusses internet-enabled activities like starting a business and preparing for college or a career. There's an appendix with conversation starters and a template for making a family agreement about online safety. VERDICT This book may help parents gain confidence as they navigate the sometimes-choppy waters of children's technology use.

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