
Teens, phones, and porn
We spoke to Attitude Presenter Brayden Murdoch about what he’s learnt through talking to thousands of young people every year about healthy relationships and making positive choices. Here’s what he had to say when we had a conversation about porn. We live in a world where watching porn on your device between maths and science…

Prioritizing Eye Contact in the Digital Age
Here is a sobering statistic: Children between the ages of 10 and 17 will experience nearly one-third fewer face-to-face interactions with other people throughout their lifetimes as a result of an increasingly electronic culture, at home and in school. That statistic came as the result of a study done in the year 2000 from Qualified Impressions,…

Screentime Across the Ages
We hear so many parents struggling to find that right balance with screen time. It can be so tricky, with these modern parenting conundrums which are somewhat new.. In 2019 The World Health Organization (WHO), released screen time recommendations for under 5-year-olds. W.H.O Recommendations: Infants (less than 1 year): Screen time is not…

Digital Parenting Beginnings
Introducing screens often begins with simple and innocent thinking like how awesome a tablet will be for helping your young person learn to read, or write or math or research, or perhaps it’s a cell phone for safety and connectivity…and not too soon after your kiddos have got their very own device for ‘learning’ or…
Modeling Matters
The sayings like “Monkey see, monkey do” or “Actions speak louder than words” are pretty accurate when it comes to the way children interpret the world around them. We can be super well-intentioned, proactive at setting clear boundaries for our kid’s screen time, have the Internet usage limits set and everything, and then, model…