Parentpower: Online Safety
Learn what’s included – and how to join or organize a live online program!
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Strong tech skills are NOT enough to keep kids safe online. They need strong social-emotional safety skills AND at least one caring adult involved in their online lives.
Without these, even the most tech-savvy teens are vulnerable to harm ranging from aggression, bullying, coercion, and sextortion to radicalization and trafficking recruitment.
An adult’s power to help young people be safe in gaming, social media, and other online spaces lies primarily in their commitment to honest, ongoing, mutually respectful communication – as well as in their commitment to learn, ask questions, find mentors, get help, and set and uphold boundaries. It does NOT depend on their own level of tech skill.
In this live online program, we explore strategies parents and caregivers can use right away to:
- Strengthen communication to keep conversations with your kids about their online lives open, respectful, and supportive
- Apply boundary setting principles to set clear rules about where, how, and when youth can use online tools
- Make a ‘Long-Term Shared Goal’ about your kids’ online lives that you all agree on – and can work toward as a team
- Build an age-appropriate understanding of issues, including online privacy, cyberbullying, and digital citizenship
- Create digital citizenship agreements and safety plans tailored to each young person’s situation
- Coach young people in making online adaptations for all of their in-person social-emotional safety skills
- Develop safety plans for trying new things online – and for getting help when things go wrong
You can enroll in a Parentpower: Online Safety Community Workshop organized by Kidpower whenever one is open for registration on our Community Workshops page – or, you can organize one for your own group!
Community Workshops make up about 5% of our services and are open for anyone to enroll. Each has an individual per-screen enrollment cost, and we have a generous scholarship policy.
Most workshop types and topics are offered Community Workshops 1-5 times a year – and are organized much more often by people like you for their own school, agency, business, group, or community.
These privately organized workshops make up about 95% of our services. They are NOT listed on our Workshops page, because the groups themselves decide who to include.
Privately organized workshops have a per-class class, not a per-screen or per-participant cost. All costs include one-on-one email support with questions before & after the workshop and links to resources to help you & your family apply, adapt, and practice the skills.
To organize a Parentpower: Online Safety live online program for your group, contact us!
Strong tech skills are NOT enough to keep kids safe online. They need strong social-emotional safety skills AND at least one caring adult involved in their online lives.
Without these, even the most tech-savvy teens are vulnerable to harm ranging from aggression, bullying, coercion, and sextortion to radicalization and trafficking recruitment.
An adult’s power to help young people be safe in gaming, social media, and other online spaces lies primarily in their commitment to honest, ongoing, mutually respectful communication – as well as in their commitment to learn, ask questions, find mentors, get help, and set and uphold boundaries. It does NOT depend on their own level of tech skill.
In this live online program, we explore strategies parents and caregivers can use right away to:
- Strengthen communication to keep conversations with your kids about their online lives open, respectful, and supportive
- Apply boundary setting principles to set clear rules about where, how, and when youth can use online tools
- Make a ‘Long-Term Shared Goal’ about your kids’ online lives that you all agree on – and can work toward as a team
- Build an age-appropriate understanding of issues, including online privacy, cyberbullying, and digital citizenship
- Create digital citizenship agreements and safety plans tailored to each young person’s situation
- Coach young people in making online adaptations for all of their in-person social-emotional safety skills
- Develop safety plans for trying new things online – and for getting help when things go wrong
You can enroll in a Parentpower: Online Safety Community Workshop organized by Kidpower whenever one is open for registration on our Community Workshops page – or, you can organize one for your own group!
Community Workshops make up about 5% of our services and are open for anyone to enroll. Each has an individual per-screen enrollment cost, and we have a generous scholarship policy.
Most workshop types and topics are offered Community Workshops 1-5 times a year – and are organized much more often by people like you for their own school, agency, business, group, or community.
These privately organized workshops make up about 95% of our services. They are NOT listed on our Workshops page, because the groups themselves decide who to include.
Privately organized workshops have a per-class class, not a per-screen or per-participant cost. All costs include one-on-one email support with questions before & after the workshop and links to resources to help you & your family apply, adapt, and practice the skills.
To organize a Parentpower: Online Safety live online program for your group, contact us!
