How to Parent in a Digital World: Resources

Looking for more resources on family technology? Here are key resources and links on digital parenting.
Family Technology Policies
Policy-making worksheet

Family Screen Policy

Family Minecraft Policy (Google Docs version here)

Family Social Media Policy

Family Support Form Responses  (copy this to your Google Drive so you can adapt it to your family’s needs. For help, see How to copy a Google Form)

Family Support Form (demo)

Parental Controls

iOS 12: Getting to Know Screen Time & Stronger Parental Controls (for iPhone/iPad)

The Complete Guide to Setting up Parental Controls in Windows

How to use Parental Controls in Windows 8

How to Use Parental Controls in OS X to Protect Your Kids

4 Ways to Set up Parental Controls on Your Home Network

Parental Control Tools That Cover Every Device In Your Home

Circle with Disney: Is it worth it?

Web filtering with OpenDNS

Recommended Resources
Common Sense Media

Sexplainer on Technology

Ross Greene’s Lives in the Balance and the Plan B cheatsheet

Geering Up tech camps

More reading and resources on family technology
Alone online

Alone online

by | Sep 1, 2010 | | 0 Comments

When we have no project to finish, no friend to visit, no book to read, no television to watch or no record to play, and when we are left all alone by ourselves we are brought so close to the revelation of our basic human aloneness and are so afraid of experiencing an...

Talking about talking about social media

Talking about talking about social media

by | Aug 31, 2010 | | 1 Comment

Daniel Greene has an interesting post about the need for offline conversations that can help us make sense of our lives online. As he puts it: I need a forum for discussion– a structured, moderated, real life, real time conversation about social media. I need to...

The size of social media

The size of social media

by | Aug 30, 2010 | | 2 Comments

No one is perfect and you can’t expect to please everyone all the time, so the best trick is to be prepared for how to handle things if your company finds itself under attack in the social realm. That's the core of Mashable's advice in a piece running today, How to...

6 social web sites where you want multiple accounts

by | Aug 27, 2010 | | 0 Comments

If you're trying to develop a consistent voice, brand or set of relationships across the social web, it's very useful to choose a username that is available on all the major social networks and use that as your consistent handle online. (I'm awsamuel, everywhere.) But...

5 life problems created by Facebook — and 1 solution

5 life problems created by Facebook — and 1 solution

by | Aug 24, 2010 | | 2 Comments

The launch of Facebook Places, which lets people "check in" to geographic locations the way they can with FourSquare, Yelp or Gowalla, has provoked a fresh round of reflection on how Facebook affects our lives and relationships. Here are 5 problems that Facebook could...

Alive offline

Alive offline

by | Aug 4, 2010 | | 1 Comment

If the Internet is addictive, then how come there's no withdrawal symptoms? I've been on vacation for three days and haven't blogged, barely tweeted, barely Facebooked, and have yet to check into a single location using the local version of FourSquare. It's hard to...

2 weeks of tips on meaningful living online

2 weeks of tips on meaningful living online

by | Aug 2, 2010 | | 0 Comments

Unplugging is not the only way to take control of your relationship to the Internet. If you want to create a more meaningful life and a healthier world, there are ways to pursue that online as well as offline. But you need to find tools that are more nuanced than the...