31: Are we punishing children online?

Amanda Third of Western Sydney University’s Young and Resilient Research Centre tells Vicki and Geraldine how online safety worries can lead to adults controlling children and young people against their interests.Talking pointsIs online resilience simply a personal quality?Is it more than ‘bouncing back’?Technology is often implicated in young people’s declining mental health. But can it actually be made to help?Tech Shock is a Parent Zone production. Follow Parent Zone on social media for all the latest on our work on helping families to thrive in the digital age. Presented by Vicki Shotbolt. Tech Shock is produced and edited by Tim Malster.wwwTwitterFacebookInstagram

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Tech Shock: Everything you always wanted to know about tech and family life.Podcasting from Parent Zone,the media literacy experts, host Vicki Shotbolt  explores the upsides and downsides of family life in the digital age. With a range of expert guests she looks at online harms to children ranging from pornography to gambling and at what should be done about them. Incurably optimistic, Vicki also celebrate the many benefits of tech for children and young people, as she considers how best to live in a world in which family life is now inescapably digital.Listen every Monday, subscribe, and give us a five star review.