Babysitter Guide
Our free Babysitter Guide is a helpful tool for quickly and easily sharing important information with your caregivers, including phone numbers, activity ideas and your family’s screentime boundaries.
It’s hard to keep track of everything our kids are into, let alone know how to talk about them. But it doesn’t have to be! These downloadable PDFs will give you the skinny on today’s hottest apps and trends, and help you train them to drive cautiously in the digital world. We hope this info is helpful for all families, and we especially recommend these guides for parents of elementary age children. It’s never too early to get prepped and ready for what’s ahead!
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Click here for our Parent’s Guide to TikTok! We will email you every 6 weeks (give or take) with tips and tricks to keep your family happy and healthy in a digital world. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Enjoy!
Oh and one more thing! If you find this guide helpful, we have a simple request: rather than forwarding it via email to friends and family, would you share it with them by directing them to this link where they can download it? Future investments in content such as this will be influenced by the number of people we know are seeing it. We are excited to hear what you think!
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Click here to download our Parent’s Guide to Snapchat! We will email you every 6 weeks (give or take) with tips and tricks to keep your family happy and healthy in a digital world. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Enjoy!
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Click here to download our Parent’s Guide to Modern Pornography! We will email you every 6 weeks (give or take) with tips and tricks to keep your family happy and healthy in a digital world. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Enjoy!
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Click here to download our Parent’s Guide to Sexting! We will email you every 6 weeks (give or take) with tips and tricks to keep your family happy and healthy in a digital world. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Enjoy!
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Click here to download our Parent’s Guide to Instagram! We will email you every 6 weeks (give or take) with tips and tricks to keep your family happy and healthy in a digital world. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Enjoy!
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Click here to download our Parent’s Guide to Cyberbullying! We will email you every 6 weeks (give or take) with tips and tricks to keep your family happy and healthy in a digital world. You can unsubscribe at anytime. Enjoy!
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From important phone numbers and activity ideas to screentime boundaries and approved devices, this printable form makes it easy to communicate your expectations for babysitters.
The Complete Guide to Chromebook Parental Controls. By Protect Young Eyes
I Was a Screen–Time Expert. Then the Coronavirus Happened. By Anya Kamenetz
Our Daughter’s Nightly Struggle. A START blog post read by 4.4 million people across the globe
The Great Realisation: A Post-Pandemic Bedtime Tale By Tom Foolery
Still Face Experiment: Developed by Dr. Ed Tronick, UMass Boston
Lessons from “distance learning.” By Jim Gaffigan
2020 Annual Report on Children’s Digital Habits. Qustodio
This is our season of coaching our children through disappointment. By Kristen Howerton
Your ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted — It’s Why You Feel Awful. By Tara Haelle
Our free Babysitter Guide is a helpful tool for quickly and easily sharing important information with your caregivers, including phone numbers, activity ideas and your family’s screentime boundaries.
A guide to popular social media app TikTok, which lets users share 15-second videos.
A guide to Snapchat, an app in which users exchange pictures, videos and private chats — however, these snaps disappear after the receiver closes them.
A guide to protecting your children from sexting, which is a combination of the words “sex” and “texting.”
A guide to Instagram, the social media platform that allows users to instantly filter, caption and share photos and videos, appealing to children’s desire for artistic, creative self-expression.
Before you hand your child the keys to a car, they spend years shadowing you in the backseat, followed by a learner’s permit. This download shares the same “ride, practice, drive” approach for device and app introduction.
A one-page download for parents to use as a guide for placing boundaries (and avoiding meltdowns) related to video games.
Before you introduce your child’s first phone, download our Smartphone Toolkit to help prepare yourself and your child — as well as the new device! — so risks are at a minimum.
A guide to protecting your children from bullying in the online world.
