Is the tech world all doom and gloom? Navigating tech with kids - with Yara, psychologist Life After Birth

We’re so happy to welcome back psychologist Yara, founder of Life After Birth Psychology, to help us navigate parenting in a tech heavy world, especially with AI on the rise. We discuss…

• What a healthy relationship with technology actually looks like for a child

• Teaching digital and AI literacy early, and why critical thinking is the real skill

• Why connection and secure attachment are your most powerful tools

• How to talk to other parents about screen rules, and what to do when you see something concerning

• Front loading kids about what they might come across online

• Why it’s not about trusting your kids, but about the billion dollar companies behind the apps

Resources mentioned:

• Hold On to Your Kids by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté

• Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

• Boy Mum by Ruth Whitman

• Good Pictures, Bad Pictures by Kristen Jenson (picture book and older-kids version)

• Cozyla: family organiser screen used for routines

• Adolescence (Netflix)

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