The document summarizes a workshop about life online for children and teenagers. It discusses parents' concerns about online safety, screen time addictions, and social media use. It explores why activities like video games and social media are appealing to youth, relating it to concepts of flow, identity development, and peer attachment. The document suggests parents focus more on time and attention with younger children and monitor peer attachment as children grow older to guide them safely online.

1. Life Online WorkshopsDemystifying Your Child’s Life OnlineRelationship / Good Judgement / Control

2. Participants tonight mostly wanted to focus on (Highest first):Facebook and texting

3. Online Safety

4. Addictive quality of video games

5. Addictive quality of the Internet,

6. The line between protection and independence?Life Online Workshops

7. Life Online WorkshopsSo, in this Workshop, we will:Introduce ourselves (15 minutes),Look at some information and data (30 - 35 Minutes)Discuss issues you are facing and how some folks are dealing with it (30 - 40 Minutes),Look at a model for how to deal with specific situations and the mass of information with which we are bombarded (15 minutes).

8. What is happening?Screen time – Video games, social networking (Facebook, texting...)Why is it happening with such intensity?What do young people need?Why video games give young people what they need?What hunger are Facebook and texting feeding in young people?What can you do?

9. A Common Sense Media study revealed:85% of parents feel that the Internet poses the greatest risk to their children.

10. Concerns included:

11. Predators

12. Cyber bullying

13. Screen time

14. Pornography...40% of 9 – 16 year-olds report believing all or most of what they see onlineMedia Awareness NetworkAreas of Concern from local parents:Safety from predators and cyber bullying,

15. Pornography and strange subcultures that may draw young people,

16. What young people believe on the Internet,

17. What their children may be revealing about themselves in communications and profiles,

18. Too much screen time

19. Addictions to video games

20. Addictions to Facebook and texting.Areas of Concern from local parents:Safety from predators and cyber bullying,

21. Pornography and strange subcultures that may draw young people,

22. What young people believe on the Internet,

23. What their children may be revealing about themselves in communications and profiles,

24. Too much screen time

25. Addictions to video games

26. Addictions to Facebook and texting.According to Media Awareness Network:Although parents may be unhappy with their children’s virtual lives,

27. They tend to not discuss these issues with their children,

28. Parents are unaware of what their children are doing online, and

29. Parents tend to not be present when their children are online (22% not present with younger children and 74% not present with older children).If I ever see you on a computer again you will be grounded until 2034You wait till your mom gets home!What were you thinking?I thought I could trust you!

30. It is often difficult to know what to do How much limitation and control are appropriate?Block allAccess?Won’tWork

31. Information is coming from everywhere