Technology for Littles: Helping Young Children Navigate the Internet Responsibly

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An easy-to-implement guide to help parents raise tech-savvy children with healthy and safe online habits from the start.

Todays youngest children are experiencing technology more intensely than any generation before them. The opportunities are greatbut so are the dangers. How do parents and educators prepare this new generation to be safe and responsible online How can they raise young children with a healthy digital balance

In Technology for Littles, parent, practitioner, and founder of Digital Respons-Ability Carrie Rogers-Whitehead combines decades of research on child development with practical tools for parents to help them raise healthy, responsible, and safe internet users at home. And because schools dont typically start digital literacy until third grade or older, this book focuses on helping parents of younger children implement online safety at home from the time a toddler first picks up a smart phone.

Packed full of songs, strategies, resource lists, and more, Technology for Littles equips parents to fearlessly tackle tech and create habits and routines that will help children grow to be healthy yet tech-savvy humans in a digital world.

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Technology for Littles is an essential, modern-day guide for parents navigating the complexities of digital citizenship, technology use, and gaming for young children with practical strategies and research-based advice. It draws on author Carrie Rogers-Whiteheads extensive experience as a parent and educator, providing ready-to-use tools and resources to help parents create long-lasting, healthy digital habits for kids. -- Tim Needles, educator and author of STEAM Power
Technology for Littles is the guide we need to raise our children to have healthy digital habits. It gives us a practical guide for navigating the digital age starting when our children are born. Through research, and Carries own parenting experiences, you will gain insight on how to help our children thrive in todays connected world. We know our digital habits are often unhealthy, and children are always watching what we do. With this book, you will have the toolkit for healthy tech routines that foster digital literacy and protect our childrens privacy. This book will help you empower your children to be tech-savvy while they are very young in order to create a healthy digital environment. Use this book as a roadmap for mindful and balanced technology integration that starts when our children are babies. This is a guide that you will pick up often as your child reaches important milestones both on and offline. -- Laurie Guyon, lead coordinator for Instructional Technology Programs, WSWHE BOCES

Author Bio

Carrie Rogers-Whitehead is the founder of Digital Respons-Ability, a mission-based company that has taught tens of thousands of parents, students, and educators around the world. Carrie is an adjunct instructor, former librarian, and regularly consults and trains on technology, online safety, education, parenting, and more. She is an award-winning author of seven books, most recently Deepening Digital Citizenship: A Guide to Systemwide Policy and Practice. Carrie lives with her family in Utah.