By Mike Lemon
The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.
Likilia Lebeau, B Dynamic Inc., chats with us about how a vision board has helped her find focus, obtain her goals, and find success in her life. She believes that a vision board can help your children can find the same success. After listening to this episode, I bet you will believe too.
Lakilia, describes how to build the board and how to use it to maintain your focus on achieving greatness. This is a great episode for parents who have kids that seem to lack direction or drive to succeed.
B Dynamic: B Dynamic Inc. an organization to help clients be the BEST version of self. Our goal is to enrich the lives of our customers by focusing on essential life skills needed to be successful.
Specializing in workforce development for any size team. Topics include: Team Building, Leadership, Implicit Bias, The Five Behaviors of Effective Teams, Goal-Setting, and more! Tailored professional development available!
You can find more information about Lakillia on her Facebook Page B Dynamic, INC.
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Jo Langford, beheroes.net, sits down with us today to answer the question: Is Tech-Addiction real? Jo has a very insightful take on why "tech-addiction" is not a real addiction, ways that are similar to traditional addiction, and what is most likely causing the attraction to the technology.
We also showcase his new BeHeroes411 app available on the app store. This app is a reference guide for teens dealing with everything from drugs, mental health issues to how to get out of a bad date. It is one of the apps every kid should have on their phone as a resource.
A little bit about Jo Langford www.beheroes.net:
I am a dad, a Master's-level therapist, and a sex educator for tweens, teens, and parents in Seattle, Washington. For the last 20 years, I have worked in that intersection of adolescence, technology, and sexuality. I speak internationally using information, education, and humor to help parents and professionals increase their knowledge and self-confidence as a proactive defense against the unfortunate consequences that sometimes accompany teen sexuality, screen behavior, and development.
I provide training for organizations and agencies as well as therapy to adolescents and families around a gambit of sexuality themes - with an emphasis on LGBT issues, Internet safety, digital citizenship, and comprehensive sex education.
I am the author of the Spare Me, "The Talk", series - guides to sex relationships and growing up for modern teens and their parents. My latest book, The Pride Guide, is an encompassing guide to sexual and social and development, safety, and health for queer youth and their families. This book is - proudly- the first puberty book written with queer (and specifically trans) youth in mind.
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Tim Gray grew up with a negative attitude towards law enforcement due to several police contacts as a young man. But, a conversation with his mother changed his life because he found his WHY. Now, Tim Gray is the Public Information Officer with the Western Kentucky Police Department and is being the change he wanted to see in law enforcement.
Tim talks to youth from across the state about how Finding Your Why can change their lives too,
The Finding Your Why is a part of the SpeakLIGHT Project that is available here.
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Edmonson County (KY) Sheriff Shane Doyle, sat down with us to discuss the growing issue of youth sexting. While most parents worry about their children being exploited by online predators on apps like TikTok and SnapChat, the reality is that more kids are sending pictures to classmates.
While their is a social and psychological toll that our children face when they take these pictures and videos, it is the legal charges that children do not think about. While it is rare that a juvenile is convicted for requesting, taking or sending these pictures and videos, there are an increase int eh number of juveniles charged with felonies requesting, taking or sending these pictures.
In Kentucky possessing one pictures of a nude person under the age of 18 is a 1-5 year felony. Taking the picture, even of yourself, is an up to 20 year felony.
Sheriff Shane and I discuss this growing issue.
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Parent mindset can determine how safe your online child is when on social media, gaming, and apps. It determines what goals are important to your children and how exposed they are to online pedophiles and cyber bullies.
Having the right mindset, focusing on the right things is the foundation of a cyber safety plan.
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50% of high schoolers have sent a sext in the last 12 months if they were first asked (SOK,Inc). These kids are facing felony legal charges when the take, send, receive or keep these pictures, even if it is themselves. But, many do not even know it is wrong.
Sheriff Shane Doyle and myself discuss what kids are facing if they sext.
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Been screaming mad with your kid's school district because of their failure to keep students safe while online? Andrew Cox is a former lawyer and Directory of Technology of a large school system in South Carolina. He has been on the frontline of school cyber safety where he did it right! In this episode, Andrew gives an inside look at what technology is needed to keep bad guys from our kids and our kids from finding bad guys.
Andrew also gives several resources and tips for parents that find themselves wanting schools to do more to protect their child while on school networks or devices.
2 preview tips:
Tip 1: Get Familiar with the Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA)
Tip 2: Ask the school for its Technology Plan
Listen to Andrew explain why these 2 things are so important.
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The podcast currently has 14 episodes available.