The White Hatter - Parenting In An Online World

In this episode we are going to be talking about the who, what, where, when, how, and why of Cellphones. We will be discussing age appropriateness, cellphone recommendations, setting cellphone boundaries, consequences to boundary breaches, problematic youth usage of cellphones, and third part monitoring and filtering software options. Resources mentioned: Our Website:  www.thewhitehatter.ca Our FR...

In this episode, we are going to be talking about online pornography, hypersexualization, and our kids. We will be speaking to how the porn industry is capturing our kids, and the less than desirable outcomes that pornography can have on healthy human sexual development.  We will also speak to how media in all its forms is hypersexualizing youth for financial gain, and what we parents and caregive...

In this episode, we are going to be talking about why sleep is important to our kids,  how technology can affect sleep, and what parents and caregivers can do to reduce the challenges when it comes to technology and sleep deprivation in our kids based on the good evidence-based research, and why getting all technology out of the bedroom is so important!  Resources mentioned: Our Website:  www.thew...

In this podcast, we are going to be discussing the crime of sextortion and youth vulnerability to this real online threat – Not only are we going to define what sextortion is, we are also going to discuss the two major types of sextortion that youth will likely face online, what parents can do to educate their kids on this topic from a prevention standpoint, and best practices as to what to do nex...

In this podcast, we are going to be talking about screen activity and what parents can do to create a balanced and blended use of technology not only during the summer break but also all year round. There is a lot of moral-based panic surrounding this topic being pushed by what we like to call “special interest groups” In this podcast, we are going to look at this important topic from a researched...