Cyber Safety Tips

3 Big Cyber Safety Factors for Our Tweens

Claire Orange | May 24, 2021 | Digital Life

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 tri....

Collective Digital-Life Responsibility; Be Outraged, Get Educated

Claire Orange | June 24, 2021 | Digital Life

* 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 th....

Harry’s Story of Gaming Addiction | Cyber Safety

Claire Orange | July 23, 2021 | Digital Life

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. Har....

Let’s Talk about Children’s Exposure to Squid Game

Claire Orange | October 10, 2021 | Digital Life, Digital Parenting

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 h....

Girls and Toxicity in Gaming | Cyber Safety Tips

Claire Orange | October 28, 2021 | Digital Life

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. T....

Can we have THAT cringe-conversation about online adult content?

Claire Orange | December 17, 2021 | Digital Life

*Take care when reading - this is adult content. Please do seek appropriate help if any content in this article is triggering. With the Billie Eilish porn disclosure top of the news cycle, there are lots of opinions, warnings and ‘I told you so....