Do you know if your child is?
Family Digital Wellness
Educate
Family Digital Wellness is a journey of learning from our own experiences and those of others. Good digital habits are a life skill that needs constant practice!
Connect
Children need to be socially connected and tech plays a huge role in their lives. Help them make choices to connect safely and happily!
Protect
Devices open doors to worlds that you don’t necessarily want your children to explore. Make sure that devices are protected to keep your children safe!
Family Digital Wellness
Educate
Family Digital Wellness is a journey of learning from our own experiences and those of others. Good digital habits are a life skill that needs constant practice!
Connect
Children need to be socially connected and tech plays a huge role in their lives. Help them make choices to connect safely and happily!
Protect
Devices open doors to worlds that you don’t want yourchildren to explore. Make sure that devices are protected to keep your children safe!
What do you need help with?
Screen time
Pornography & Violence
Gaming
Social Media
Filters & Limits
Settings
Cyberbullying
Stranger Danger
What Area Do You Need Help With?
Screen time
Pornography & violence
Gaming
Social Media
Filters & Limits
Cyberbullying
Stranger Danger
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Your questions answered
It depends on their age and whether it’s fun or functional screen time
Make a Family Digital Alliance and agree how, when and where screens are used. Use screen time apps and/or WiFi routers to help guide and develop your family’s good digital habits
Take a deep breath and then talk to them using our guide linked below. Use parental filters to prevent access to inappropriate adult websites and limit social media apps and games.
ScreenTime (iOs) and Family Link (Android) are a good start, but installing parental control filters on devices and WiFi are best.
Default settings for phones, tablets, computers and gaming consoles can all be reset to protect data security and location.
Settings for apps and games can be changed to protect the identity and location of your kids, to keep them safer.
ScreenTime (iOs) and Family Link (Android) are a good start, but installing parental control filters on devices and WiFi are best.
App and game developers use similar persuasive technology techniques to those used by the gambling industry, to make apps and games irresistible, compulsive and hard to stop.
Cyberbullying is prevalent on social media and online games, make it a habit of asking your child about their 'Digital Day' to keep lines of communication open about their online world. If they tell you they are being Cyberbullied, treat it as if it were in person bullying, contact the bullys parent, escalate to a teacher if need be, and be sure to take a screenshot the bullying so you can have a discussion about it.
Congratulate your child on speaking up. Teach your child to be a Cyber Superhero: an Upstander rather than a Bystander.
If you wouldn’t open your front door to strangers and let them play in your child’s room, monitor who they are talking to online.
DIGITAL WELLBEING, SIMPLIFIED
What do we do?
We get parents and children talking about the device use challenges they have, and how they can improve their daily digital habits. We speak in schools, run online learning experiences, and promote practical products that can help to make sure you and your children are educated, connected and protected when it comes to your digital wellness.
We simplify the complicated world of digital wellness with practical guides, resources, information and products. To ensure we are offering solutions that our parents and children really need, our work is driven by the search enquiries we receive every day. Try it below!
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WHO WE WORK WITH
Clients
We work with schools, parents, EdTech companies, and industry leaders to create learning experiences that improve daily digital habits.
Our broad range of exposure to the challenges of maintaining balanced digital wellness means that we are well equipped to educate, connect and protect our clients.
Be In Touch Founders
Kate & Josh
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Be In Touch Founders
Kate & Josh
5 STAR REVIEWS
What our customer say about us
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Real, practical guidance that can save us a lot of damage and drama. A stitch in time n all. Thanks Josh! Linda Wilson
December 14, 2020 - Simple, insightful - what all busy parents need Rmd Gammatec
December 10, 2020 - An amazing organization made up of an amazing team! Extremely proud to be associated with BIT! Russell Pengelly
December 14, 2020 - Be in Touch is an absolute invaluable initiative and resource for parents and their children, and even for grandparents like myself, as we navigate this ever growing digital landscape. The digital connected world has such incredible value, but also many challenges, as not only we are being exposed to very powerful negative agendas over the web, but also the danger of devices being the new addiction. Josh and team, thanks so much for coming form a deep values-based motivation to support us in this way. Tertia Smit
December 17, 2020 - The solution could not be more relevant. Arno Van Der Walt
December 15, 2020 - Very important for all families with young children, tweens and teens! Susan Tasker
December 10, 2020 - Josh and his team bring significant experience, best practice and the latest tech to the digital wellness space. Our learnings through Be In Touch really emphasize the dire need for all parents to step into a space or knowing how to manage your child’s online journey always supporting healthy usage. I highly recommend working with Josh Misha Teasdale
December 14, 2020 - deeply thoughtful ideas to help parents with meaningful control over the acess to social media for their children. TimRobin Farina
December 10, 2020
A new year means ... NEW EMOJIS 😆👇
The Unicode Consortium (the governing body of emojis), has announced that they will release 117 new emojis this year! Look out for the Mending Heart, Pinched Fingers, Face in the Clouds, Heart on Fire - and greater variety in skin tones 👌
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@futurecraftkids On board your kids to the Future-Craft World and let them GAME TO GROW!
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How about making time for more "face to face" conversations these holidays? Talking in person comes with the benefit of all sorts of body language cues that are key to really understanding and "getting" each other. And if it must be written, THINK, is it -
True
Helpful
Inspiring
Necessary
Kind?
#beintouch #digitalparenting #consciousparenting #think #sayit #saywhatyoumean #bekind
Kate & Josh at Be In Touch, are really hoping your festive season will be - well, no other way to say it, but - G.O.A.T!
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What tech / life balance are you looking to bring into your family this festive season?
#beintouch #digitalparenting #familydigitalwellness #familytime #familychat #techbalance #techbalancedkids #consciousparenting #familyrules #digitalfamilyalliance #thinkaboutit
Keep in touch, stay in touch, just be in touch! Your kids need you to help guide them through their parallel digital universe.
#beintouch #digitalparenting #digitalwellness #talktothem #licensetoparent #conciousparenting #cybersavvy
Are phones on the Christmas list this year? LOANING rather than OWNING means you can keep a check on how and what they are used for. Download our editable Digital Family Pledge, to help you set the ground rules for building good digital habits for life. Now THAT is one of the best gifts you can give your kids! https://beintouch.org.za/resources/
#beintouch #digitalparenting #loannotown #cybersavvy #consciousparenting #techsmart #licensetoparent #gooddigitalhabits
Got no tea to share today, sorry!
#beintouch #digitalparenting #socialmediaslang #slayit #tea
What does YOUR digital footprint look like?
As parents navigating the parallel digital universe along with our kids, we know how irresistible it can be sometimes, to comment or post online. And how we can regret it!
Teaching our kids to THINK before they comment in real life, is a life skill that will also help them online. Keep asking them: Is what you just said -
T true?
H helpful?
I inspiring?
N necessary?
K kind?
#beintouch #digitalparenting #bekind #besavvy #think #noregrets #digitalfootprint #digitaltattoo #canttakeitback #lifeskills
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WHO WAS COLLIN? Collin Kartchner, a father of 4, child advocate, social activist and founder of the world-wide movement #SavetheKids, spoke openly to schools and communities across the US and Canada on the dangers of kids using smart phones and social media like Snapchat, TikTok, & Instagram, as well as the negative effects of violent video gaming and pornography. His goal was to help teens rise above social media comparison, negativity, cyber bullying, and the stress of being perfect. He was also adamant that most kids aren’t being exposed to porn for the first time directly from the porn sites, but from apps like TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram.
He called TikTok “the Pied Piper, leading our children off the cliff of their childhoods”, and that TikTok is “the sound of an app stealing your kid’s life away”.
He called Snapchat “a disaster app that glorifies porn, sex, suicide, drugs, and other inappropriate topics,” and declared 1 June 2018 “Delete Snapchat Day”, calling for parents and kids to take a stand together.
Collin’s rallying cry was: “We’re fighting a trillion dollar tech industry with zero accountability and zero incentive to stop throwing kids under their digital bus.”
👇PARENTS - please use this "real age" guide to social media apps to check in with your kids today, and make decisions that are right for YOUR family.
#beintouch #digitalparenting #savethekids #savetheparents #socialmedia #realage #teenmentalhealth
Today, we reflect on the life of this incredibly kind and inspirational man - a warrior for our children and an advocate for protecting their mental health against social media. Collin Kartchner has touched so many young lives, and has left a digital footprint that we MUST keep following.
#savethekids #savetheparents
#beintouch
#collinkartchner
#hug
#socialmedia
#teenmentalhealth
No one makes good decisions when they are tired. And with night time being "prime time" for cyber bullying, it's a no brainer to keep devices out of bedrooms at night.
#screensshouldsleep ... on their very own comfortable, communal, central charging couch!
#beintouch #digitalparenting #licensetoparent #ownit #savethekids #gooddigitalhabits #screennogozone
Keep encouraging your kids to "keep it real" - and to chat to you about friends that they are worried about.
#beintouch #digitalparenting #sadfishing #cryforhelp #keepitreal #digitaldepression #savetheparents #savethekids
What a year this has been for teachers - just to say, we appreciate and salute you!
#worldteachersday
#changinglives #youngminds #goingaboveandbeyond #makinganimpact #beintouch
Chatting to Josh on Cape Talk this arvie, Pippa Hudson asked whether The Social Dilemma went far enough? What do you think? Has it made you a bit more conscious about how MUCH time you spend on your screen, and on WHAT?
#beintouch #digitalparenting #savvyscreentime #licensetoparent #socialmedia #thesocialdilemma
When the screen can no longer contain the first person shooter game...
#beintouch #digitalparenting #swatting #gaminggonereal #firstpersonshooter #savvyscreentime #licensetoparent
Move over, Fortnite! Watch out, Overwatch!
The new games on the block are all about heart-pumping FUN. Have you played the free-for-all chaos of Fall Guys, or the sci-fi murder mystery of Among Us, with your kids yet?
BiT TIP: Among Us has a text chat function, but the host setting up a game can set it to private mode for friends only to join!
#beintouch #digitalparenting #savvyscreentime #licensetoparent #fallguys #amongus
The Social Dilemma: our thoughts on cutting the puppet strings. We'd love to hear yours!
#thesocialdilemma #beintouch #digitalparenting #licensetoparent #socialmedia #screentime #conciousscreentime
Heard of OnlyFans? Billed as one of the fastest growing influencer platforms, parents of teens need to check in on this app! Rated 18+ by the app developers themselves, it has become popular as a platform where content creators can post premium provocative and intimate photos, videos, live streams, text and online chats – all at a price. The platform has 60 million users and 750,000 content creators globally, according to most recent data. While some content creators are sex workers, others are models, dancers, singers, musicians and comedians.