You already know about doing The THINGS: Setting up filters, monitoring your child's digital life, training them on the dangers, setting up boundaries, and on and on.
All of this may leave you seriously tempted by one of two routes:
1) Hand them the tech and hope for the best.
2) Head to the hills and live off-grid. 😉
Let's face it: most of us understand that our kids need some powerful, lasting guidance.
But we don't want our children to only behave well under threat of punishment.
We want them to choose to behave well because they want to be the authors of their own happy and fulfilling life story!
There's a big difference.
So how do we provide this kind of training for them? The kind of training that goes with them when they become adults, and are no longer under our supervision?
Hi, we're Em and Dave
When our oldest son started asking for a phone, we began researching best practices for introducing technology to children and were met with an avalanche of alarming statistics on the negative impact of screens on kids.
The scary stuff is very real, and very dark. But parenting from the space of fear doesn't sit well with us. We believe deeply in the power and strength of young people, and their capacity to learn to harness technology for good, WITH powerful training.
Our creation of a training course for our own children was life-changing, and affirmed our belief that there really is HOPE for kids, (and their amazing parents) in this crazy digital world!
Five children later, the Internal Filter Workshop is now a world-class online tool that is revolutionizing the way parents train their children to be wise digital consumers.
Your child may be on the cusp of receiving their first phone. Or, your child may already have a phone.
In either case, the window of time for powerful training is a short one. This is your chance to strengthen the most powerful protection they can have in a tech-saturated world: a robust Internal Filter.