MindPOP

🤝 Phone-free schools open opportunities for authentic, in-person connection that are good for the soul.
Phone-Free Schools Movement

Alone time can be a normal and healthy part of teenage life, but new research is challenging assumptions about how much is too much. As daily face-to-face time with friends declines, brain imaging studies are finding links between lower in-person socialization during adolescence and differences in brain development. Now, with so much left to learn, experts are beginning to question what consequences this may have into adulthood.

Learn more: https://on.natgeo.com/44Du5fX

⚠️ If your child or teen has a smartphone and spends time in online platforms like SnapChat, Instagram, or Discord, it is urgent that that you bring yourself up to speed about SEXTORTION.

We have waited far too long to protect our kids online. We can't afford to wait.
✅ Join Unplugged Canada in their fight to protect Canadian kids.
👓 Read the full post to learn more.

Our children don’t have to wait years for Canadian laws that protect them online.

In Australia, it took just 20 days to pass a world-first law setting a minimum age for social media.

That speed was driven by parents acting together and a clear consensus: kids need stronger online protections.

Many parents feel like they’re the only ones struggling with this. They’re not. Across countries, communities, and political lines, parents are reaching the same conclusion.

After our advocacy visit to Ottawa, one Senator told us:

“Parents are typically too busy and the least engaged. We’ve never seen a grassroots movement quite like this.”

➡️ TAKE ACTION NOW:

📣 Contact Your MP
If you want legislative change, write your Member of Parliament today and ask for immediate action.

🔗 Resources
Our Pledge and MP outreach templates are linked in our bio.

Parents are paying attention. Lawmakers are noticing. Let’s keep going. 💪

This says it all! Stay tuned for more news to come on the Phone-Free Schools Movement coming to Canada!!

A brilliant resource from Unplugged Canada 🇨🇦

What could make a massive difference in preventing exposure to harmful content, especially explicit material?
‼️ Parents and educators, this matters.
✅ Delaying social media access for kids until at least 16
✅ Enforcing bell-to-bell, away-for-the-day phone policies in schools
✅ Investing in robust digital literacy programs

Who knew boredom was such an essential state to experience as we grow?

Drugs aren’t just “a phase.”
They’re the biggest voluntary battle your kids will ever face.

👉 Once kids choose drugs, most spend the rest of their lives trying to convince themselves they’re in control.
👉 Others spend their lives chained to an addiction that steals their money, their friends, and their family.

💨 The #1 gateway drug you need to worry about right now? VA**NG.

✔️ V**e companies & social media spend millions to hook your kids.
✔️ There are 100 ways for your child to get a v**e — at school, online, in your own neighborhood.
✔️ Once they start, ni****ne isn’t the end. It’s the beginning. Cigarettes… and sometimes even harder drugs hidden in v**e pens.

One “harmless puff” can turn into a lifelong fight your child may never win.

⚠️ Talk to your kids NOW. Drugs. Alcohol. To***co. These aren’t small decisions — they’re life-changing choices with consequences that can last forever.

Happy Parenting,
Officer Gomez

Check out Let Grow!

🌟 Kids don’t need more screen time—they need more freedom.

The Let Grow and Balance Project are proving that when communities embrace childhood independence, kids thrive. 💪

👉 Try The Let Grow Experience—a simple, school-based “homework” that invites kids to do something new on their own. One small step for parents, a giant leap for kids’ confidence!

Read the new blog based on the TIME piece & see how neighborhoods like Little Silver are helping kids trade screens for real-world adventures. New blog: https://letgrow.org/as-time-magazine-was-just-saying/ 🛴🌳

Collective action to improve youth wellness 💪

From :

"The four norms I have proposed cost almost nothing to implement, they cause no clear harm to anyone, and while they could be supported by new legislation, they can be instilled even without it.

We can begin implementing all of them right away, this year, especially in communities with good cooperation between schools and parents.

A single memo from a principal asking parents to delay smartphones and social media, in support of the school's effort to improve mental health by going phone-free, would catalyze collective action and reset the community's norms.

We didn't know what we were doing in the early 2010s. Now we do. It's time to end the phone-based childhood."

More information can be found on our website, www.unpluggedcanada.com ➡️ link in bio.

Let's give our kids their childhood back ✨️.

In case you haven't heard ... 😩

🚨 Roblox is not safe for children.

Despite lawsuits, media exposure, and mounting public pressure, Roblox continues to fail at protecting young users from grooming, exploitation, violent content, and predatory behaviour.

Our latest article breaks it down:

👉🏻 What parents need to know
👉🏻 The hidden dangers beyond chat
👉🏻 Why Roblox’s safety “updates” don’t go far enough
👉🏻 How kids are being groomed, scammed, and addicted inside the world’s most popular gaming platform for under-16s

Available here: https://collectiveshout.pulse.ly/7qafvghbsf