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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 your children 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.
Clients
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Be In Touch Founders
Kate & Josh
5 STAR REVIEWS
What our customer say about us
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Simple, insightful - what all busy parents need 
Rmd Gammatec
December 10, 2020 - 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 - Very important for all families with young children, tweens and teens!
Susan Tasker
December 10, 2020 - An amazing organization made up of an amazing team! Extremely proud to be associated with BIT!
Russell Pengelly
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 - The solution could not be more relevant.
Arno Van Der Walt
December 15, 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 - 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
In The Media
Yo, Rents! Need to brush up a bit?
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#socialmediaslang
#onlinelife #onlineoffline #digitalwellbeing #digitalparenting #teenspeak #socialmedia
To all the MOMS out there - we salute the role you play in your kids' lives! You are more important than you will ever know...
#beintouch #mothersday #mum #mom #parenting
We are so excited to be launching the #share2protect campaign with FEDSAS, gathering data to train technology to do exactly this, through a facial scan, keeping kids safer online!
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"If we don't know what are our kids are seeing and doing online, we can't be there for them."
We help schools and their parents -
Get real insights into what their learners are actually experiencing and being exposed too, online
Understand how this is impacting teaching and parenting
Realise the impact on how this generation is growing up
Find practical responses to support, guide, mentor and protect kids going online.
#beintouch
#digitalwellbeing #kidsonline #onlineoffline #digitalparenting #consciousparenting #stats #trends #cyberbullying #pornography #strangerdanger #grooming #selfharm #drugsandalcohol
Smart phones and tablets are designed for adults, and let's face it - they are hard for US to manage and control!
Kids need their parents to help guide and mentor them through their online-offine life.
Treat devices like a bicycle when letting your kids on to them, and put on some "training wheels" -
*Install parental controls & limits
*Set boundaries on when & where to use them
*Check IN & Check UP
"If we don't know what's going on in their world, we can't help them!"
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We just love working with teens, to understand what they are actually experiencing in their online-offline, one world life. As parents and teachers, it helps us to define the challenges that they need our help to grapple with, in our digital age!
Thank you for your amazing feedback on Josh's talk, and your honesty in our survey about what is really going down online! @generationschools students!
#generationschools #onlinelife #teentalk
#beintouch #teensonline #cybersavvy #familydigitalwellness #teenmentalhealth #onlineoffline
It takes a "digital village" to raise our children in today's online world! Come and join us...
#beintouch #digitalwellbeing #digitalparenting #onlinelife #keepkidssafe #techsavvy #consciousparenting #digitalvillage
In one of our recent surveys at a boys’ high school in South Africa, we asked WHAT TIME OF DAY DOES CYBERBULLYING MOSTLY HAPPEN? The response?
56% said late at night
24% said in the evenings
16% said in the afternoons
4% said in the mornings
Makes sense that families who put devices to bed, on charge, outside of bedrooms at night, halve the risk of cyberbullying.
And better sleep all round is an added bonus!
If you’d like to get more insights like this for your school, chat to us - [email protected]
The upside of some regular unplugging (even if it is forced!), is that you never know to what new adventures it might lead!
#beintouch #digitalwellbeing #digitalparenting #unplugged #screentime #offlinelife
Let's be mutuals!
#mutuals #beintouch #digitalvillage #followforfollowback #spreadthelove
Often used by teens to insult boys who are "too nice" to girls, SIMP can also be viewed as a compliment to someone who is simply ahead of their time! 😉
#bekind #beintouch #teenslang #onlinelife #teenmentalhealth #teenspeak #teentalk #genz #digitalwellbeing #digitalfamilywellness #digitalparenting
When was your last #madcapmoment?
#beintouch #beconscious #liveyourbestlife
Introducing... social AUDIO (as opposed to media)!
Who's managed to get an invite to Clubhouse yet?
Click our bio to sign up for our newsletter- we can't guarantee an entry to the Clubhouse, but we'll help you stay in touch with the goings on in the online world 😀
#beintouch #digitalwellbeing #digitalparenting #familydigitalwellness #clubhouse
#clubhouseapp #onlinelife #digitalworld
There isn’t pornography over here, and trafficking over there… they’re interlinked.” Melissa Farley Ph.D., Executive Director, Prostitution Research and Education
Pornography is a difficult conversation for many parents to have with their kids, but with the average age being 9 for first (often accidental) exposure to what is, let’s face it – NOTHING like what we were able to access as kids – it is a topic we need to open up for discussion early on and regularly.
Give porn a real face: Ask your kids how people in porn movies may have got there? Whether they might have chosen this or are being forced? Whether they might be someone’s sister, mother or daughter?
Then watch “Brain, Heart, World” – a ground breaking 3-part documentary presented by @fightthenewdrug
https://fightthenewdrug.org/brain-heart-world/
#beintouch #saveourkids
#reallife #changinglives #childhood #fightthenewdrug #brainheartworld #talktoyourkids #someonesdaughter #someonessister #someonesmother
TikTok has had a bad rap lately, with the sad consequences of the #blackoutchallenge. But there are also some great challenges out there, if you are looking for some family-friendly bonding over tech? Which ones have you tried??
#parentchallenge #footshakechallenge #balancechallenge
When downloading this app, remember these 2 tips:
👆We subscribe to #CommonSenseMedia : TikTok real age rating 15+
👆Adjust the privacy and Digital Wellbeing settings in the app
#beintouch #digitalparenting #tiktokdance #tiktokchallenge #familyfun #happyeaster #easterfun #familydigitalwellness #techsavvy #digitalwellbeing #familyfriendly
"But Mom, he's my boyfriend..." Do you (and your kids) always know who they're talking to online?
Check out all the great resources we have online, to help you with those super important digital conversations www.beintouch.org.za
#onlinelife #familydigitalwellness #keepkidssafe #beintouch
#betheparent #consciousparenting #boyfriending #grooming #strangerdanger #digitalparenting
Some days that "digital divide" just feels sooo real!
#beintouch #digitalparenting #familydigitalwellness #onlinelife #everydayanewday
No doubt about it, raising kids in today's digital world brings a whole new set of challenges to our parenting repertoire!
#beintouch #digitalgatekeeper #digitalvillage #digitalfamilyalliance #digitalfamilywellness #consciousparenting #cybersavvy #onlinelife #digitalparenting #licensetoparent
Online, offline - for our kids, it's all "real life" to them.
#onlinelife #offlinelife #reallife #unplugged #beintouch #digitalgatekeeper #digitalparenting #consciousparenting #cybersavvy #familydigitalwellness
CANCEL CULTURE – the new Cyberbullying? What do your teens think?
When something is cancelled, it is nulled, ended, voided. This is the basic idea behind the slang meaning of cancelling a person. When a person is cancelled, they are no longer supported publicly - as happened to public figures in the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter Movements.
#beintouch #digitalparenting #cancelculture #cyberbullying #kindnessisasuperpower #upstander #teenslang #socialmediaslang