As summer draws to a close and parents ready their homes for the start of another school year, it’s the ideal time to discuss digital citizenship and responsible internet usage practices with kids.  This digital workshop from the Verizon Foundation and Frontline entitled, ‘Advice for Parents,’ focuses on digital parenting.  Anne Collier, web safety expert and editor of www.netfamilynews.org, emphasizes that while parents cannot remove all risks from a child’s life online, they can empower and educate children to be responsible social web users.  And, in fact, this empowerment and education is a vital part of their cognitive development. 

The Verizon Foundation and Frontline developed this series of digital workshops for parents. This series of interactive resources will help parents deepen their knowledge of how digital technology is transforming our society and gain insights into understanding, analyzing and participating in our technology-infused world. 

The digital workshops include activities for adults to learn how to manage their family’s media usage, to become a better caregiver to the “digital natives” in their lives, to assess the impact of technology in education, and to explore the effects of multitasking on our brains and much more.

We all know parenting the digital generation can be tough. Watch ‘Advice for Parents’ above and explore resources for parents on balancing how to keep kids safe online, while empowering them as digital citizens. Learn that you can transfer your good parenting skills into cyberspace!  Visit the Frontline website here to view other tips, and let us know what you think!