What Will They Text Next:

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• What Will They Text Next
• Teen, Social Media, and Technology

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The Screen Challenge

• Take a moment to total how much time you spend
  daily looking at a screen.
• Then,
• Take some time to estimate how much time your
  teenager spends looking at a screen.

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Kids Today

• 78 of teens have cell phones, almost half own
  smartphones
• 1 in 4 are cell-mostly internet users
• 23 of teens have a tablet
• 81 use social networking sites
• 8-18 year olds devote an average of 7 hours and
  38 minutes to using entertainment media across a
  typical day
• 100 of EHS students have a laptop and access to
  the internet
• (The Kaiser Family Foundation, 2010 PEW
  Research Center, 2014)
• 100 of EHS students have laptops

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POP Quiz!
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What Social Media Are They Using?
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What are they posting?
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Brain Changes

• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vHffWFd_6bJ0

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Dangers of Social Media

• What we know about teens
• They are constantly trying to define themselves.
• They crave positive feedback to help them see how
  their identity fits into their world.
• They use social media for this feedback... but
  they are looking in a dangerous place.

• How is this harmful
• The danger exists in the possibility of a very
  public rejection because negative feedback is
  there for anyone and everyone to see.
• Another danger is that teens ask for feedback
  without learning first that not everyone will
  respond in a supportive way.

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What Can You Do

• In order to teach your children how to seek
  feedback from genuine sources, parents should
  start early by helping their children identify
  trustworthy sources.
• Most importantly, parents need to reinforce that
  the most influential voice should come from
  within.

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Engage Your Family

• Engage your teen in meaningful conversation about
  internet use
• Talk to other parents, deans, counselors
• Validate your teen's reality and their need to be
  connected
• Engage your child in drafting the rules for the
  family
• guidelines for use
• consequences for breaking those rules
• Model appropriate use of technology
• minimize texting
• don't use cell phone/laptop at meals
• don't use cell phone in the car

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Let Your Teen Know

• That you have the right to check their laptop,
  phone, etc..
• What apps/media are okay and what are not
• That you need to know their passwords
• What their online responsibilities are
• Protecting their privacy
• Not engaging in cyber bullying

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What Are You Worried About?

• Invading your kids privacy?
• Not feeling comfortable with being on social
  media?
• That they have secret accounts?
• Just as you would establish ground rules and do
  diligence in person, there is a need to do the
  same things - or even more - with the internet.

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Other Parental Concern

• 81 are worried about how much advertisers can
  learn about their kids through their behavior
  online
• 72 are worried their kid is interacting with
  people they do not know online
• 70 are worried about how their online activity
  might affect their future academic or employment
  opportunities
• 60 are worried about their kids reputation
  online
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  (Pew Research Center, 2013)

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Apps to Protect Your Kid in the Car

• Canary
• MamaBear Child Tracker app
• Rapid Protect
• OnStar Family Link
• Travelers Insurance IntelliDrive
• Progressive's Snapshot
• ATT DriveMode
• Sprint Drive First
• Cellcontrol
• Drive Scribe

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Apps to Protect Your Teens Phone

• My Mobile Watchdog
• Mobile Spy
• Text Guard
• WebWatcher

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Scripture to Empower

• Matthew 18.6-7
•  If any of you put a stumbling-block before one
  of these little ones who believe in me, it would
  be better for you if a great millstone were
  fastened around your neck and you were drowned in
  the depth of the sea. Woe to the world because of
  stumbling-blocks! Occasions for stumbling are
  bound to come, but woe to the one by whom the
  stumbling-block comes!

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