Crosscurrents 2024 Online
Hannah Beach
Cell Phones: What's Healthy, What's Not, and What We Can Do to Support our Kids
Cell Phones: What's Healthy, What's Not, and What We Can Do to Support our Kids
Many of our kids are anxious and glued to their phones, seeking endless distraction and feeling isolated and disconnected. Aggressive outbursts have become common and yet others seem to have stopped talking all together. As parents and caregivers, we are increasingly alarmed. We entice, cajole, bribe, encourage, shout, but nothing seems to work long term.
Is technology bad? Absolutely not - it's wonderful and has brought us so many gifts. But the invention of devices that travel with kids has also greatly shifted childhood and adolescence, affecting their learning, relationships and emotional health.
Is change impossible? No ... in fact we are seeing a ground swell of change percolating across the world! Although we may personally not be able to change the culture at large, there is much we can do to shift our family and school cultures so that we can support our kids to truly discover their best selves. Small changes can have big effects.
Join Hannah for a warm and conversational workshop exploring practical strategies we can use to help our children and youth when it comes to managing devices. This conversation has never been more important as we look at how we can support our children and youth to grow, learn, develop, and reach their fullest potential.
Is technology bad? Absolutely not - it's wonderful and has brought us so many gifts. But the invention of devices that travel with kids has also greatly shifted childhood and adolescence, affecting their learning, relationships and emotional health.
Is change impossible? No ... in fact we are seeing a ground swell of change percolating across the world! Although we may personally not be able to change the culture at large, there is much we can do to shift our family and school cultures so that we can support our kids to truly discover their best selves. Small changes can have big effects.
Join Hannah for a warm and conversational workshop exploring practical strategies we can use to help our children and youth when it comes to managing devices. This conversation has never been more important as we look at how we can support our children and youth to grow, learn, develop, and reach their fullest potential.
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Hannah Beach is an award-winning educator, author, emotional health consultant, and keynote speaker. She is the co-author of the best-selling book "Reclaiming Our Students: Why Children Are More Anxious, Aggressive, and Shut-Down than Ever – and What We Can Do About It", with Tamara Neufeld Strijack, a trauma-informed resource for educators and parents rooted in the relationship-based approach. She was recognized by the Canadian Human Rights Commission in 2017 as one of five featured changemakers in Canada. Her bestselling "I Can Dance" book series, supporting the emotional health of children through movement, play, and expression, won a 2017 Gold International Moonbeam Children’s Book Award.
Hannah delivers professional development services across the globe, provides emotional health consulting to schools and community-based programs, and speaks at conferences about the power of relationship and play. |
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This workshop does not have handouts.
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