Dear Tween with Allison Ochs

What if your child could sit down with one of the world’s leading online safety experts and ask her anything? No filters. No awkward silences. Just real questions — and the answers every family needs to hear. That’s exactly what Dear Tween is. Every week, social worker and pedagogist Allison Ochs sits down with a real tween for an unscripted, honest conversation about life online. A pedagogist is more than an educator — it is a professional trained in child development, behaviour, and the social and emotional forces that shape how young people grow. Combined with her background as a social worker, Allison brings a rare and powerful lens to one of the most urgent challenges of our time: keeping children safe, confident, and grounded in a digital world that was never designed with them in mind. Allison is the founder of Edit Change Management and a published author whose work has shaped conversations around online safety across the globe. For over a decade, sh