here’s the third of ten special podcasts corresponding to the chapters in Reboot: Reclaiming Your Life in a Tech-Obsessed World. In chapter 3, I came face to face with a befuddling issue: how’s a writer to address the issues like young children’s privacy and parental ‘sharenting’ without coming over all judgemental?!

In this episode, I (that’s author and psychologist Elaine Kasket) try to work that out. I share the recording of a conversation with my own child that inspired REBOOT in the first place - with that now-13-year-old’s permission. (I also had to pay her, which seems fair enough given the topics covered in this episode.

I also speak with Amelia Tait, UK-based journalist who has spent much of her career investigating children on the Internet, and with Leah Plunkett, author of Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk About Our Kids Online.

Full-length interviews with both Amelia Tait and Leah Plunkett, complete with transcripts, will soon go behind the paywall for paid subscribers to Life on Tech.

Stay tuned — later this week we’ll be talking surveillance, social scoring, and behavioural tracking of school-age children with a host of new guests and contributors to REBOOT.

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