WHO WE ARE
About the Be In Touch team
About the Be In Touch team
WHO WE ARE
Mother | Thinker | Visionary | Founder
Kate
From an interest in marine biology which broadened to “swimming with sharks” in a corporate environment as an environmental lawyer, Kate has always got involved in ventures that channel her passion for motivating others and making a difference. She has a husband who views Whatsapp as the pinnacle of social media, and so, as an almost 50-year-old mum of two tweens, keenly felt the pressure to better understand the digital world and how to manage its impact on her kids.
The concept of Be In Touch was born, out of the realisation that the intel she was gathering was needed by other like-minded parents, also doing their best to try and keep afloat in the modern age of parenting.
WHO WE ARE
Mother | Thinker | Visionary | Founder
Kate
From an interest in marine biology which broadened to “swimming with sharks” in a corporate environment as an environmental lawyer, Kate has always got involved in ventures that channel her passion for motivating others and making a difference. She has a husband who views Whatsapp as the pinnacle of social media, and so, as an almost 50-year-old mum of two tweens, keenly felt the pressure to better understand the digital world and how to manage its impact on her kids.
The concept of Be In Touch was born, out of the realisation that the intel she was gathering was needed by other like-minded parents, also doing their best to try and keep afloat in the modern age of parenting.
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 - 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 - Very important for all families with young children, tweens and teens!
Susan Tasker
December 10, 2020 - Simple, insightful - what all busy parents need
Rmd Gammatec
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
Yo, Rents! Need to brush up a bit?
#beintouch #teenslang
#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!
@fedsas @getyoti
#beintouch #ageestimation #keepkidssafeonline #yoti #fedsas #share2protect #under13 #filters #digitalfence #agerestriction #agegating #grooming
"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!"
Click the link in our bio to sign up for our newletter and join the Be In Touch Digital Village.
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
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