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Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Creating Digital Safe Spaces :: Chris McKenna [Ep 360]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Does keeping your kids safe on the internet ever feel like a game of Whack-a-mole - frenzied and unending, always trying to fend off the threats that pop up? Or maybe you’ve been afraid your kids would be or feel left out if you had more limits on their screens? You’ve seen the documentaries and the research of how addictive social media can be and the average age in which kids are exposed to pornography keeps going down and yet, we know on some level what we forbid our kids to do has the potential to become the only thing they want. Families around you probably have a wide range of tech norms in their households. Kids relentlessly request screen time. Honestly, sometimes we long for the quiet of a kid mesmerized by a screen. 

What’s a mom to do? 

Enter this week’s guest, Chris McKenna, dad of four and founder of Protect Young Eyes, an organization devoted to helping parents create safe digital spaces for their kids. Chris encourages us that while there are real things our kids need protecting from on the internet, there are real ways we can foster digital trust and create safe digital spaces for our kids. Chris helps us understand that rather than a controller, our kids want a coach - someone to teach them how to use technology in ways that honor God, themselves, and others. 

 

Connect with Chris McKenna & Protect Young Eyes: 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey oh welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

0:10.8

I'm your host Heather McFadden and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you

0:15.6

and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

0:22.5

And in this episode number 360, I'm going to try y'all.

0:28.3

I'm going to try to help you out when it comes to technology I've invited the go to coach

0:34.8

for parents in this area.

0:36.4

Chris McKenna from Protect Young Eyes.

0:40.8

I want us to be shoulder to shoulder as early and often as possible when it comes to technology.

0:46.8

Anything connected to the internet.

0:48.9

I want them to know from a very young age, Heather, that technology is a wee activity

0:53.8

and not a me activity.

0:56.1

There's a big difference between those two.

0:59.2

Whether you're a parent of young kids or teens, the topic of technology can be super intimidating,

1:05.4

overwhelming and feel like a game of whack-a-mole.

1:08.2

Things changing all the time and not knowing where to put our energy and feeling super defeated

1:13.1

and then when our kids encounter something we don't want, we can feel guilt and shame.

1:17.7

And so I wanted to help you out connecting you with Chris McKenna.

1:21.9

He's a data for.

1:23.2

He gets the challenges.

1:24.8

He also is the founder of Protect Young Eyes.

1:28.2

And what their team does is help parents.

1:31.0

They come along parents to create digital safe spaces.

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