With 4 lads growing up in my home, you can imagine that there’s been a reasonable amount of gaming. It’s a complex world to understand, and like with all things internet related, there’s the good and the bad to think about and understand. The skills needed for gaming...
Squid Game – it’s everywhere! My older teens and young adults have watched and loved it, enjoying the game play aspects of their childhood now made adult with a life-death twist. They actively defended the content until we talked about how they would feel if their...
With an estimated 2.8 billion gamers across the globe in 2020 (that’s equivalent to 110 x the population of Australia just for context), it’s a hobby, pastime and occupation that’s certainly gained a lot of traction in the past decades. Harry is just one of those...
* Trigger warning – proceed with caution. This post contains distressing themes and details. Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800 | Lifeline 13 11 14 The story is told and unfolds – every word etched in pain, sorrow and loss. Emotional pain so acute that it sears the soul, and...
There are many of us who are very grateful that our tween and teen years, with our changing bodies, erupting skin, social turbulence and poor decisions were in the time before anything could make its way onto social media. The tween years are tricky ones. There is so...
There’s a saying, “The family that plays together, stays together” which is very true. As children grow up surrounded by screens and technology in a time of busy-busy and hurry-scurry, keeping up family rituals, connectedness and sharing is increasingly important....
Perhaps you read the last blog on cyberbullying and girls – so now, it’s time to take a look at boys in the online space. While cyberbullying happens to both girls and boys, there are some distinct trends that happen more within each gender grouping. Of course, that...
At every point along the parenting journey, there come times of recognising that a particular unwanted behaviour or attitude of a child has either settled in or started to unacceptably increase - and there's a feeling of it being a bit (or a lot) out of control. It's...
You may be wondering why we’re having a gender-based discussion about cyber-bullying. Is it really all that different between the genders – and is this the same online as offline? Understanding how girls and boys use the online space in the same and different ways...
The scene is set... Screen-time has snuck up from a little bit, to a much-too-much sort of situation. Maybe it’s been over holidays or because of a particularly busy period in family life. The decision is made to pare back on screen-time and while the body is willing,...