Rob Cope is coming to Tahuna

Perhaps the most important meeting to attend this year! Tahuna Intermediate School hall on Tuesday, 17th March from 6.30-8.30 - FREE EVENT but tickets required -see below

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rob-cope-our-kids-online-tickets-1981971337624?aff=oddtdtcreator

Kia ora, e te whānau

We all want our school and community to be a safe place for our tamariki. But in a rapidly changing digital world, the risks our children face online are growing—more frequently, and more seriously.

That’s why we’ve invited filmmaker, author, and speaker Rob Cope, producer of the powerful documentary Our Kids Online, to deliver a humorous, eye-opening evening talk for our parent community.

His talk will cover:

• Cyberbullying - How bullies can reach our kids 24/7

• Social media - How social media is affecting the mental health in 3 out of 5 children. FOMO, depression, anxiety

• Gaming and the developing brain – An oversupply of dopamine leading to dopamine deficiency, synaptic pruning, and the underdevelopment of social skills and empathy

• Naked Selfies - The pressure to send nudes from intermediate up through high school

• Online predators - The methods they use, how to spot them

• Online porn vs healthy sexuality - How consuming online pornography as a child or teen can create a sexual template where violence, aggression, and dominance are seen as normal and consent can become very blurry.

• AI - Growing concerns around Companion bots, Deepfakes, Voice Cloning, Algorithmic Radicalisation 

Solutions

• Filters - Which filters are best and how to install them

• Smartphones - How to lock down a smartphone to make it a safe phone

• Boundaries - How to put good boundaries in place around device use

• 3 golden rules - The 3 golden rules that will keep your kids safe

• Talking to your kids - How to have difficult conversations with your kids

• Challenging our own phone and device usage - Reconnecting as a family.

Here is a promotional video for you to watch   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhBFJ5RK2R8

The talk will be held at Tahuna Intermediate School hall on Tuesday,   17th March  from 6.30-8.30.  Please note this talk is for adults only and is not suitable for children or teens to attend. As this is such an important topic, that we really want families to engage in, a movie will be playing in a separate space, with supervision for children whose families need childcare to attend.

The Board see this as such an important session that they have agreed to fully fund the event. Making it free does not take away its value. We see it as so important we want to remove all barriers. The school would appreciate a koha at the end of the session if you have found it valuable.

We request that at least one representative from each family attend, and hope you are able to prioritise this within your busy lives. This topic is too big for us not to pay attention. 

Included in your ticket is a one-year complimentary subscription to Parenting in an Online World 101 valued at $99. Created by Rob and Zareen at Our Kids Online, this practical, no-nonsense course is designed specifically for kiwi families and is already being used in thousands of homes across the country.

Please note: simply buying a ticket does not give you access to the course—you must attend on the night to receive it. So don’t miss out!

You can check out the course here: Parenting in an Online World 101