Helen Butler - Youth Coach, Life Coach & Trainer

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🌐 Today is Safer Internet Day! As a parent, ensuring your child's online experience is safe and positive is crucial. Follow this post for tips on how to navigate the digital world together.

1️⃣ Discover the Internet together. Explore websites and apps with your child to understand their online interests. It's a great way to teach them about safe browsing.

2️⃣ Set rules for Internet use. Discuss and agree on healthy digital habits and limits. Clear guidelines help children understand expectations.

3️⃣ Teach your child to be cautious with personal information. Explain why sharing details like address or phone number online can be risky.

4️⃣ Discuss the risks of meeting online friends in person. Emphasize the importance of safety and always being in the loop if they plan to meet someone.

5️⃣ Encourage critical thinking. Help your child learn to evaluate online information and distinguish between reliable and misleading content.

6️⃣ Support your child's online exploration. Being overly critical can discourage open communication. Encourage learning and discovery.

7️⃣ Let your children show you their online world. It's a wonderful opportunity to bond and understand their interests.

8️⃣ Remember, the Internet's positives outweigh the negatives. It's a gateway to knowledge, creativity, and connection. Let's make it a safe journey for our kids!

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This should be a great webinar for parents whose children are under 18 and at risk of starting to drink alcohol at a young age

Parenting expert Joanna Fortune will come to Roscommon town for a one off workshop on Inclusive Parenting. Sexual and gender identity has become more complex, nuanced, rich and inclusive than ever before but this is more than knowing your LGBTQ+ alphabet. Joanna will talk to us about parenting in an inclusive and open way while being honest about the limitations of what we know and understand.

❓You are what you like - online algorithms help to filter the volumes of content we encounter, but how do they influence the content you see in your newsfeed?

Here are useful steps to broaden the variety of content you encounter 👇
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📲Here are our top tips to manage in your home this summer! ⤵️

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Remember, SO often they can't help how moody they are. They just ARE. So, give that moody teen of yours a GREAT big hug... that is if they don't cringe and run for cover. They need all the love and support you can give. 🧡🧡🧡