Teens and Screens: Parenting with Hope in a Digital Age
Technology is the number one reason parents believe raising kids is more complicated than it was in the past. Managing the tech in our homes is messy, confusing, time-consuming, and challenging. There are so many dangers and we want our teens to be protected while they learn to protect themselves.
If you have ever felt afraid, anxious, or overwhelmed about your tween or teen’s tech usage, this course is for you! Good information leads to good inspiration so I have put together several years of research on this topic into one amazing course.
After working through these videos and the accompanying manual, you will feel more confident:
keeping your tween/teen safe online
opening up conversations about safety
setting up a layered monitoring system (blog post here)
creating family rules about screen usage
setting boundaries
knowing when it’s ok to trust your tween/teen
knowing what types of things to watch out for in regards to video games and social media
Watch the course here:
Some of the questions I examine during the course are:
When (and why) should I get my teen a phone?
What defenses can I set up to protect my teen on the internet?
How can I feel less afraid and more peaceful?
What is screen addiction and how can I help my teen avoid it?
How can I improve my own screen usage?
How much screen time is too much screen time for teens?
What can I do to help my teen be emotionally healthy?
What is the imaginary audience and how does it affect social media use in young teens?
How can I keep screens in their proper place in my home?
What conversations do I need to have with my tween/teen?
“If there’s one thing I’ve discovered about technology, it’s that it doesn’t stay in its proper place on its own...if we aren’t intentional and careful, we’ll end up with quite an extraordinary mess.”
The course is made up of five guides:
Using Screens as Entertainment
Using Screens as Buffers
Using Screens to Connect
Using Screens as Tools
Parenting with Hope
Each guide has 4-5 short videos in it covering topics like:
Video Games
Social Media
Boredom and the Dopamine Cycle
Teen Development
Screens and Self-Esteem
Processing Emotions
Distraction
Avoiding Misinformation
The Importance of Friends
Being Deliberate
Procrastination
Pornography
Defending Your Castle (tech monitoring)
Motivating Teens
Modeling Tech Usage
The 10 Digital Commandments
Addiction
Managing Parental Emotions
Peer Pressure
And more! Each section also has simple actions you can take to improve the tech usage in your home (including your own), connect with your teen, open up conversations, and keep them safer online. The whole course will take you about four hours to complete.
“Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
The course comes with a 60 page interactive manual that goes along with the videos. It has questions for you to consider as you watch and it includes some additional PDF’s like:
230 Talents list
Self-Esteem and Social Media Tips
Tech Evaluation
Mental Health Checklist
15 Cognitive Distortions
Video Game Questionnaire
50 Emotional Coping Strategies
Gen Z Slang Quiz
Parental Needs Checklist
The course is available right here on my website in my member area, The Inspired Teen Classroom. You can watch it on your own time whenever it is convenient for you. Just click below to pay and it will prompt you to create a password. Then simply sign in and the course is all there for you! Your membership also includes my new Parent Teen Night Portal.
For further resources and support, join my free Facebook Group Raising Inspired Teens. I would love to get to know you better there! You can also email me with any questions you have at rachelle@theinspiredteen.com. See you soon!
“Don’t allow teens to be molded by what they are exposed to. Teach them to do the molding.”
For more information on what is available inside the classroom, click here.