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Common Sense Tips for Digital Generation Parents

Five practical pointers from Common Sense Media to help parents understand and manage the lives of their digital kids.

By Amy Erin Borovoy (aka VideoAmy)
5/27/09
Five practical pointers from Common Sense Media to help parents understand and manage the lives of their digital kids.
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Video Credits

Written by

  • Carl Bidleman

Coordinating Producer

  • Lauren Rosenfeld

Editor

  • Karyne Holmes

Production Support

  • Amy Erin Borovoy

Production Assistant

  • Doug Keely

Senior Video Editor

  • Karen Sutherland

Executive Producer

  • Ken Ellis

Footage Courtesy of

  • Common Sense Media
  • © 2009
  • The George Lucas Educational Foundation
  • All rights reserved.

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Glossary

Skype: A software application that allows users to make telephone calls over the internet.

World of Warcraft (WoW): A massively multiplayer online role-playing game where thousands of players adventure together in an enormous, persistent game world, forming friendships and engaging in epic quests that can span days or weeks.

Sources: WorldofWarcraft.com, Wikipedia.org


Discussion Questions

1. Calm Down: Do you think adults are too concerned about online safety? Does this concern overshadow the benefits of technology?

2. Embrace Their Digital World: What can you do with your kids right now to better understand their digital world?

3. Find Balance: How can you help kids balance their time on different technologies?

4. Provide Alternatives: How can we encourage our kids to disconnect from the digital world without taking away their independence?

5. Be the Parent: What values are the most important to teach to kids living in the Digital Generation? What are some specific ways to teach those values?


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Hala Tewfik
Posted on 2/10/2010 6:07am

We sometimes tend to take

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We sometimes tend to take things to extremes like when we totally prevent our children from using the computer claiming that we protect them. The Common Sense tips are really helpful because you have to know at least a little about technology and what your kids are talking about in order to know how to protect them and at the same time not to deprive them of the world of benefits that technology provides. It takes some effort from the parents.

Pamela Tucker
Posted on 8/5/2009 11:53pm

Common Sense Tips for Digital Generation Parents

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I enjoyed this particular video clip because I have a seventeen year old son who loves the internet. As I watched the video I checked to see if the things that I do with my son went along with what the speaker was saying and they did. I monitor his time on the computer and I have the computer stationed where I can watch his every move without him knowing it. I also talk to him about what he is doing or listening to. Most of all I try to teach him to be responsible when using the computer and not go to websites that have anything that is negative.