By Helen Roe
The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.
Dr Kristy Goodwin is one of Australia’s leading digital wellness and digital parenting educators and the author of Raising Your Child in a Digital World.
Kristy is regularly called upon by the media to translate the latest research about kids, teens and screens into practical
and relevant information for worried parents and professionals. She provides parents and professionals with facts, not fears,
about how screens are impacting on children’s health, learning, wellbeing and development and also on adult health and productivity.
Kristy’s on a mission to empower people to tame their technology habits and not be a slave to the screen!
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For further information on Dr Kristy and her work or to see where she is speaking next in Australia, visit her website.
Kim McCabe is the founder and director of Rites for Girls which, since 2011, has offered Girls Journeying Together groups, support for mothers and training for women wanting to support girls. Described by Steve Biddulph as 'the creator of an extraordinary social advance', Kim's robust remarkable work gives girls the support they need to see them through their teens.
After studying psychology at Cambridge University, Kim worked as a counsellor to teenagers. She has also trained and worked as an assertiveness trainer, a business management consultant and a shamanic dance teacher.
Kim contributed to Ten Things Girls Need Most by best selling author Steve Biddulph before writing her own book From Daughter to Woman, parenting girls safely through their teens. For more information please visit Rites for Girls.
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Christine Wheeler is an expert EFT practitioner and has worked with thousands of people to help them alleviate physical, emotional and spiritual challenges and live with hope and joy.
She has also taught parents, school and counselors to put this unique self-help tool into the hands of the people who are caregivers for youth.
A Hay House author, Christine's book The Tapping Solution for Teenage Girls is the essential tool for teen girls to help them Stop Freaking Out and Keep Being Awesome.
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You can learn more about Christine and get her book The Tapping Solution for Teenage Girls on her website.
Zack Bryers has been a homeless teenager, a soldier in Afghanistan, a gridiron player for Australia, a Churchill Fellow, and now a youth worker.
After leaving home at 15, Zack spent time on the streets, before he set a goal to join the army which turned his life around. He spent tours of duty in Afghanistan before post-traumatic stress disorder saw him medically discharged. Within 18 months Zack was playing for the Australian gridiron team in the World Cup in the United States. He then trained as a youth worker.
With compassion and consistency and drawing on his own experiences, Zack supports and inspires some of our community’s most disadvantaged and disengaged young people.
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Further Resources
To learn more about Zack and the work he does visit his website.
Jordan Foster is formally recognised as one of Australia’s foremost cyber safety experts, providing online safety education to over one hundred thousand students, families and school staff Australia wide.
Jordan is a Clinical Psychologist Registrar and the founder of ySafe, a now nationally-adopted household name in the field of cyber safety. Jordan has extensive clinical expertise in working with children and adolescents managing problematic technology use, including cyber bullying, image-based abuse, and Internet Gaming Addiction.
Jordan has presented as a guest lecturer at prestigious Australian universities, provides comment in national media stories as a subject matter expert, consults with medical and mental health consortium conferences, and presents as a key note speaker at national education and cyber events.
I know you're going to get so much out of my conversation with Jordan, I certainly did.
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Further Resources
To learn more about ySafe and the work Jordan does to support parents, schools and communities visit ySafe.
Susan McLean is Australia's foremost expert in the area of cyber safety and young people.
Widely regarded as Australia’s first cyber cop, she was a member of Victorian police for 27 years and took her first reported case of cyber bullying, amongst Year 8 girls, in 1994!
Her best selling book Sexts, Texts and Selfies has just launched a second edition and in this interview she shares all the latest insights.
I found this conversation with a Austlalia’s cyber cop so helpful and I think you will too.
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To learn more about Susan, her book and her work visit Cyber Safety Solutions.
Cyber Safety Solutions on Facebook.
Commonly known as the ‘Queen of Common Sense’, Maggie Dent has become one of Australia's favourite parenting authors and educators, with a particular interest in adolescence and resilience.
Maggie’s experience includes teaching, counselling and working in youth suicide prevention. The author of 10 books, she is a dedicated advocate to quietly changing lives in our families and communities. Maggie is the mother of four sons and a very grateful grandmother.
Note: Whilst this episode is audible there were some technical issues on this interview, hence the quality is compromised. It's a great conversation with Maggie and worth listening to, so thank you for your patience.
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To learn more about Maggie and her books and programs, visit her website.
Rachel Downie is an educator and social entrepreneur who has worked in public and private school settings for over 20 years.
She now workshops with students, teachers and parents in school communities in Australia, to tackle issues of bullying and harm, eSafety, cyber wellness and personal safety.
She educates through two organisations she has founded: Stymie, an anonymous online reporting system for use in schools nationally and Bravely, which focuses on raising confident girls.
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Further Resources:
Rachel Downie’s website
Stymie Anti Bullying for schools website
ESafety Commissioner Conversation Starters
Family Zone Cyber Safety
Anya is an education correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR). She wrote about technology, innovation, sustainability and social entrepreneurship for five years with Fast Company magazine.
She was named a 2010 Game Changer in Education by the Huffington Post and won 2009, 2010, and 2015 National Awards from the Education Writers Association.
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You can learn more about Anya and her new book, The Art of Screen Time on her website.
Further resources:
The World Health Organisation, the public health division of the United Nations, has released its newest list of classified diseases, of which "gaming disorder" is included. WHO's International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
Headspace National Youth Mental Health Foundation Ltd
Lifeline
SMARTRecovery Australia
Circle: Smart Family Controls
Family Zone
Sonia Livingstone OBE is Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics. She has published twenty books on media literacy with a particular focus on the opportunities and risks of digital media use in the everyday lives young people.
Sonia has advised the UK government, European Commission, European Parliament, Council of Europe and other national and international organisations on children’s rights, risks and safety in the digital age. She was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2014 'for services to children and child internet safety.'
She is on the Executive Board of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety, is a member of the Internet Watch Foundation’s Ethics Committee, is an Expert Advisor to the Council of Europe and was recently Special Advisor to the House of Lords’ Select Committee on Communications.
She is currently leading the project Global Kids Online (with UNICEF Office of Research and EU Kids Online) and writing a book called Parenting for a Digital Future (Oxford University Press). Sonia is chairing LSE’s Truth, Trust and Technology Commission and participates in the European Commission-funded research networks, DigiLitEY and MakEY.
She also runs the blog Parenting Digital.
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Further Resources:
Professor Sonia Livingstone LSE
Parenting for a Digital Future
Sonia's latest book: Living and Learning in the Digital Age
Global Kids Online
The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.