Protect Your Child's Digital Footprint, Starting in Babyhood
On-Demand Class · Parenting
- Language: English
- Sessions: 5
- Duration: 27 minutes
- Child age: 0 M - 3 Y
- Price: $27 USD (included with BabySparks Premium)
- 54 people have enrolled in this class
This course is designed to help you establish healthy digital boundaries for babies and toddlers, and navigate the specific parenting concerns you will have for keeping your littlest ones safe in this digital age.
Class Description
For children under 3, these early years are crucial for healthy cognitive development, so it’s important to establish healthy boundaries with your home tech from a young age. This course will discuss things like: sharing ultrasound images announcing baby’s arrival protecting your baby monitors from hackers protecting your privacy when using digital aids and home tech managing screen time and setting healthy digital boundaries.
Sessions Overview
- Welcome: This introductory session sets the scene on what is digital parenting for newborns and children under 3 years old.
- Identity and Oversharing: This session informs parents and caregivers on strategies to protect babies identities online, whether a parent is sharing on social media or if a parent is using smart assistants in the home.
- Screen Balance and Digital Wellbeing: This session shares guidance on screen balance and how to achieve wellbeing online. As a digital guardian of your baby, you can find ways to manage screen time and set healthy digital boundaries.
- Connected Devices: This session describes connected devices and informs parents and caregivers on how they can use wi-fi enabled devices safely and responsibly around young children.
- Babies, Toddlers and Older Siblings: This session provides a few ideas on how to ensure that your older siblings can have a bit of screen time, while the younger ones have serious bonding time with you.
Your Instructor
Elizabeth is an international speaker on child online safety and parenting in the digital age. She has consulted for many key global actors in online child protection: Family Online Safety institute, Council of Europe, UNICEF, Internet Matters, UK Safer Internet Centre, Digital Wellness Lab, Verizon, Vodafone and more. She has several publications on parenting in the digital age available on Amazon and she co-wrote several publications for the Council of Europe. A graduate of UCLA and UC Davis, she practiced as a litigator in California for four years before moving to France to work as General Counsel in two Internet Technology companies. She earned her Ph.D in International Relations and Diplomacy and is an Assistant Professor at AGS, lecturing on children's legal rights. Elizabeth is the host of the Digital Parenting Community Facebook group and invites you to join at https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheDigitalParentingCommunity/
Degrees and Certifications
Certificate in Understanding Children's Human Rights Law, London School of Economics Ph.D in International Relations, American Graduate School in Paris J.D. / M.A. in Political Science, Univ of California, Davis M.A. / M.B.A, European Univ, Paris B.A. in Econ, Univ of California, Los Angeles
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