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Parents and Digital Technology: How to Raise the Connected Generation
Children today are digital natives, growing up in an age where social media and online communication is the norm. This book is an indispensable guide for parents who may feel they are struggling to keep up, addressing the issues that young people and their families face in the world of modern technology. Suzie Hayman, a parenting counsellor, and John Coleman, a distinguished psychologist, use their combined expertise to explore the challenges and possibilities of being constantly connected, helping parents to make choices about how they communicate, set boundaries and establish rules. Using real-world examples and solid psychological theory, the book looks first at the anxieties parents express about digital technology, followed by the serious potential threats such as cyber-bullying, sexting and easy access to pornographic or violent materials. However, the internet is also full of enormous potential and a further chapter explores the positive side of the digital playground. The authors also share their expert understanding of child and adolescent development and how this relates to the appeal of digital media, with special attention paid to the importance of good communication. The end result is a toolbox for parents, full of tips, strategies and techniques designed to help navigate the digital world, ensuring it is safe yet still exciting for young people. Parents and Digital Technology is essential reading for all parents and guardians as well as those caring for children and teenagers in a professional setting, who want to get the best out of life and modern technology while keeping safe in a family that talks to each other, spends time with each other and enjoys each other.
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234 pages, Paperback
First published May 8, 2016
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Suzie Hayman
57 books13 followersSuzie Hayman is a leading UK expert in family issues. A relationship counsellor, agony aunt, parenting practitioner, writer and broadcaster she uses her weekly column in one of the most popular women’s magazines to help readers makes sense of emotional issues. Using down-to-earth language she strives to help everyone understand complex feelings and behaviour and to take control of their own lives.
Suzie Hayman trained as a counsellor with Relate and volunteered with them for 5 years, is an accredited TripleP (Positive Parenting Programme) parenting educator, a broadcaster and author of thirty books. She writes an advice column for Woman magazine. She has written weekly columns in The Times and the Saturday Guardian, has been the agony aunt for Woman’s Own magazine and BBC Health Online and was the counsellor seen guiding five families through their family dilemmas on the major BBC1 series, “Stepfamilies”. She was one of the founding agony aunts in Kids In The Middle, an alliance of agony aunts and charities, lobbying for increased support for children caught up in family breakdown. She has worked for the Family Planning Association, Brook and Family Lives.
She is a trustee and spokesperson for Family Lives, the major UK parenting charity, and contributes articles and appears in a variety of podcasts on their website. She is a trustee of The Who Cares Trust, for “looked after” children and contributes to “Who Cares?”, and “Who Cares Junior”, magazines for kids in care produced by The Trust. She is patron of Unique Kidz and Co, which provides specialist services for disabled children and their families. She makes frequent appearances on national and local television and radio on programmes such as BBC Breakfast, You and Yours, PM and Women’s Hour and is a regular on BBC 5Live, BBC Scotland and BBC Wales as well as many local BBC and commercial stations. She has also been an occasional presenter on her local BBC radio station, BBC Radio Cumbria. She is a freelance journalist and has written features, mainly on parenting, relationship, health, sex and counselling matters, for a wide range of national magazines and newspapers – most recently the Times, Daily Mail, Guardian and Independent. She has conceived and written leaflets and website material for Family Lives, Drinkaware, the NSPCC, One Parent Families, the Family Planning Association and Brook including a Young Mum’s Guide for OPF, “Hands Off” for the NSPCC and “Say Yes, Say No, Say Maybe” for Brook. She is regularly asked to give expert comment in national and local media and to speak at conferences and to give seminars on a wide range of issues to do with relationships and parenting.
She has had 30 books published, helping parents, families and individuals to manage issues such as stepfamilies, being a single parent, communicating with teenagers, having a happy family life, managing family breakdown and assertiveness. She has also written on sexual fantasy and tantric sex.
She lives in a 300 year old farmhouse with Vic, her husband, and 2 cats. She has one stepson and one granddaughter, loves fine wine, good food, fell walking ..... and Vic!
Suzie Hayman trained as a counsellor with Relate and volunteered with them for 5 years, is an accredited TripleP (Positive Parenting Programme) parenting educator, a broadcaster and author of thirty books. She writes an advice column for Woman magazine. She has written weekly columns in The Times and the Saturday Guardian, has been the agony aunt for Woman’s Own magazine and BBC Health Online and was the counsellor seen guiding five families through their family dilemmas on the major BBC1 series, “Stepfamilies”. She was one of the founding agony aunts in Kids In The Middle, an alliance of agony aunts and charities, lobbying for increased support for children caught up in family breakdown. She has worked for the Family Planning Association, Brook and Family Lives.
She is a trustee and spokesperson for Family Lives, the major UK parenting charity, and contributes articles and appears in a variety of podcasts on their website. She is a trustee of The Who Cares Trust, for “looked after” children and contributes to “Who Cares?”, and “Who Cares Junior”, magazines for kids in care produced by The Trust. She is patron of Unique Kidz and Co, which provides specialist services for disabled children and their families. She makes frequent appearances on national and local television and radio on programmes such as BBC Breakfast, You and Yours, PM and Women’s Hour and is a regular on BBC 5Live, BBC Scotland and BBC Wales as well as many local BBC and commercial stations. She has also been an occasional presenter on her local BBC radio station, BBC Radio Cumbria. She is a freelance journalist and has written features, mainly on parenting, relationship, health, sex and counselling matters, for a wide range of national magazines and newspapers – most recently the Times, Daily Mail, Guardian and Independent. She has conceived and written leaflets and website material for Family Lives, Drinkaware, the NSPCC, One Parent Families, the Family Planning Association and Brook including a Young Mum’s Guide for OPF, “Hands Off” for the NSPCC and “Say Yes, Say No, Say Maybe” for Brook. She is regularly asked to give expert comment in national and local media and to speak at conferences and to give seminars on a wide range of issues to do with relationships and parenting.
She has had 30 books published, helping parents, families and individuals to manage issues such as stepfamilies, being a single parent, communicating with teenagers, having a happy family life, managing family breakdown and assertiveness. She has also written on sexual fantasy and tantric sex.
She lives in a 300 year old farmhouse with Vic, her husband, and 2 cats. She has one stepson and one granddaughter, loves fine wine, good food, fell walking ..... and Vic!
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January 26, 2022
Bine,bine, recunosc. Am fost FOARTE darnică oferind această notă cărții. Ok. Cred că v-am și speriat făcându-vă să vă gândiți că sunt niște idei aberante ori că autorii susțin părinții în a-și ține copiii în fata ecranelor maximal posibil 😅😅
Însă cauza e cu totul alta. De fapt, autorii au deviat extrem de mult de la temă, astfel încât probabil doar vreo 20-30% din carte se referă la tehnologia digitală. 🤷🏽♀️ Aceștia incepeau prin a oferi o idee spre exemplu că lipsa comunicării poate duce la o atracție mai mare pentru tehnologii, ca ulterior tare repejor să scrie capitole întregi despre comunicare. 🤷🏽♀️ Vă întrebați oare dar ce e așa rău dacă vorbește despre alte aspecte ale educației care la fel sunt importante? Nu-i nimic rău doar că titlul te invită la o altă temă, pentru care de altfel am si plătit când am cumpărat cartea 😁😁😁
Iar pe parcursul cărții veți tot găsi trimiteri de genu: “dar ca sa aflați cum să soluționați asta, așteptați să ajungeți la capitolul x”, iar tu stai și fierbi așteptând acel capitol revelator ca în final să vezi că și aici e o țeapă. 😏😏
Deci da.. dacă e să căutați bine găsiți și niște idei Ok, doar că se cam pierd prin celelalte, în timp ce autorii încearcă din răsputeri să prindă vreo 20 de iepuri o dată și să pună în discuție toate temele posibile.
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