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HEITNER’S – A Dozen Tips To Help Your Family Thrive in the Digital Age Raising Digital Natives HERE
How can parents and mentors help kids growing up in a world where nearly every moment of their lives can be shared and compared?
With social media and constant connection, the boundaries of privacy for children are stretched thin. We can track our kids’ every move with apps, see their grades within minutes of them being posted, and fixate on their digital footprint, anxious that a misstep could cause them to be “canceled” or even jeopardize their admission to college. All of this adds pressure on kids who are coming of age immersed in social media platforms that emphasize “personal brand,” “likes,” and “gotcha” moments. How can they figure out who they really are with zero privacy and constant judgment?
Devorah Heitner shows us that by focusing on character, and not the threat of getting caught or exposed, we can support our kids to be authentically themselves
Drawing on her extensive work with parents and schools as well as hundreds of interviews with kids, parents, educators, clinicians, and scholars, Heitner offers strategies for parenting our kids in an always-connected world.
Devorah Heitner, Ph.D., is the authority educators and parents turn to for empowering advice on mentoring resilient and kind kids in our always-connected world. is the author of Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World. Her newest book, Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World will be out with Penguin Random House in September 2023. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and Fast Company, among others. Dr. Heitner earned a Ph.D. in Media/Technology and Society from Northwestern University and has taught at DePaul University and Northwestern. You can follow Devorah on Instagram here for quick tips on mentoring digital kids.
