Parenting styles are important as they play a large part in forming your child. Why do parenting styles matter more in the digital age? It is because as digital natives our children can find an alternative world online which either involves you are a parent or shuts you out.
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LagosMums 5th Annual Parenting Conference and Exhibition
LagosMums presents it’s 5th Annual Parenting Conference and Exhibition. The highly anticipated event brings together thousands of mums, parents and experts to discuss raising children, work life balance, growing healthy families, the influence of digital media and technology on parenting and so much more!
Why Digital Intelligence Is Important and 5 Ways Parents Can Help
Why is digital intelligence important? Do you know it is dangerous not to have digital intelligence? Do you know how you score when it comes to your digital quotient and digital intelligence? Digital is the the language of today. Everyone is digital in some way or the other and it has the potential to make…
Could Online Monitoring Apps Be Bad For Parents
Online monitoring is a big question in many discussions with parents. Everyone wants to know how to monitor their children’s online activities and get recommendations for which online monitoring app to use. I advise parents not to rely solely on apps for monitoring their child’s actions online. It is more important to spend quality time…
12 Online Safety Tips Every Child Needs To Know
Our children are online, we cannot avoid it. The internet has a lot of benefits but the reality is that there is also a host of online safety tips every child needs to know. Parents are the best teachers, so we advise that parents spend time teaching and guiding children about how to be safe…
Tips on How To Monitor Your Child’s Screen Time
“Mum you know I can just delete the history on my computer and you will not know where i visited?” this was a statement of fact from my 7-year-old. This was the conversation that we had recently after I asked my son for his laptop, so I could do a spot check and go through…
Parents Get Off Your Phone
We talk about the fact that children learn more from what you do than what you say. Based on what children and teens are saying we want to tell parents; get off your phone. Tim Elmore a parenting guru, who focuses on growing leaders shares advise on this matter. His colleague, Andrew McPeak, hosted several…