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Educate and Empower Kids

Conversations with My Kids: 30 Essential Family Discussions for the Digital Age Kindle Edition

by Dina Alexander (Author), Melody Bergman (Author), Jenny Webb (Author), Format: Kindle Edition

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Parenting in the digital age has never been tougher. It seems the world is changing around us at an ever-increasing speed with new technology, massive amounts of information, and new dangers lurking everywhere--especially online.

At school and in our communities our kids are talking about BIG topics and they have questions. Whether it is about technology, racism, suffering, death, social classes, changing technologies, the environment, terrorism, it’s time for us as caring adults to combine our wisdom and their tech savvy to strengthen and empower one another. To address these newer, more challenging concerns, Educate and Empower Kids™ has created a brilliant new resource for parents and teachers, Conversations with My Kids.

Comprised of five sections (Technology, The World Around Us, Relationships, Self-Improvement, and Deeper Topics) with 30 unique topics, Conversations gives you the words and handy discussion questions to have meaningful talks about the real issues of the day. Addressing tough topics on an ongoing basis strengthens kids, brings you closer together, and opens the door when your kids need to tell you something REALLY important.

The 30 Conversations include:

Using Tech for Good
Social Media
Overcoming Fears
Integrity
Setting Goals
Healthy Sexuality
LGBTQI Issues
Racism and Tolerance
Feminism
Getting Along and Staning Up for Others
Addiction and Connection

PLUS LOTS MORE!

Every child and teen is faced with a huge variety of pressures on every side and we can help them to overcome adversity, face unique challenges, and become strong, resilient adults! How do we do this?

We help our kids by connecting with them in deep, meaningful conversations about important topics, including some of the struggles they now face or will in the future. This is what inspired us to write Conversations!

Connecting with our kids begins with simple, daily interactions. Use these simple conversation starters to talk about deep issues. Have fun as you tackle these topics, even the heavy ones. Find the humor in tough talks and learn to lighten up as you help your kids face life’s challenges.

Ready to start talking? You've got this!

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Our kids face an uncertain world. Thankfully, we’ve created simple conversations to educate and strengthen them.

Parenting in the digital age can be challenging. The world is changing fast with new technology, information overload, and online risks. Our kids are engaging in important discussions about various subjects at school and in our communities.

They have questions about technology, suffering, relationships, and more. As caring adults, it's time to harness our wisdom and their tech-savviness to empower each other. To tackle these challenging concerns, Educate and Empower Kids introduces Conversations with My Kids.

Conversations offers five sections (Technology, Our World, Relationships, Personal Growth, and Deep Topics) with 30 unique subjects.

We equip you with conversation starters and insightful questions to engage in meaningful discussions about essential topics. Regularly addressing tough topics strengthens your bond with your kids and ensures they'll come to you when they need to share something truly important.

Nurture Deep Conversations and Connection With Your Kids


30 Relevant Lessons Connecting with our kids begins with simple, daily interactions. Use these simple conversation starters to talk about deep issues.	Thought Provoking Questions We help our kids by connecting with them in deep, meaningful conversations about important topics, including some of the struggles they now face or will in the future. This is what inspired us to write Conversations!	Timely Topics Have fun as you tackle these topics, even the heavy ones. Find the humor in tough talks and learn to lighten up as you help your kids face life’s challenges.

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Alexander (How to Talk to Your Kids about Pornography), Bergman, and Webb offer an informative resource for parents looking for positive ways to discuss important and often difficult topics with kids of all ages. This helpful guide is broken into five main topics: technology, "the world around us," relationships, self-improvement, and "deeper topics" (integrity, spirituality, and death, to name a few). Alexander and Bergman address more difficult subjects, like online pornography and racism, as well as easier but no less important themes such as standing up for others, healthy sexuality, and money management. Each focus area is broken down into a portion suitable for adults seeking advice, followed by discussion questions to help broach the subject with youth. Suggestions range from projects that can be done at home, such as role-playing various situations, to those involving the larger world, including volunteering or picking up trash.

The authors take into consideration how issues should be discussed for varying ages and include discussion points to use with younger children, in addition to separate conversation notes for older kids and teens. With sound and easy-to-follow advice, along with well-written activities that are not too challenging for kids and adults to do together, families can individualize concepts according to need. Innovative activities--for example, creating "a petition on Change.org to create a crosswalk for a busy street, add a playground to a park... or any other project you feel will create positive change in your local community"--stimulate learners of all ages to put the handbook's ideas into practice. The authors incorporate citations and additional resources at the end of each section and a detailed glossary to answer any questions that arise after reading the material.
Jera Mehrdad's illustrations are colorful and well-laid-out, breaking up text effectively for easy reading and holding both kids' and adults' attention. Creative elements highlight the topics at hand, such as the crowns used as bullet points and decorated, framed quotes that appear in relevant sections. The solid base of educational recommendations, combined with thought-provoking concepts and artistic design features, will keep readers engaged with this enjoyable and informative handbook.
Takeaway: Parents looking for advice on how to discuss tough topics with children and teens will appreciate this engaging, educational guide.
Great for fans of: Elizabeth A. Sautter's Make Social and Emotional Learning Stick!, Richard Heyman's We Need to Talk.

About the Author

Dina Alexander, MS is the founder of Educate and Empower Kids (educateempowerkids.org), an organization determined to strengthen families by teaching digital citizenship, media literacy, and healthy sexuality education--including education about the dangers of online porn.

Recently she's written the children's books:
Petra's Power to See: A Media Literacy Adventure
Noah's New Phone: A Story About Using Technology for Good
This is the Spirit of Revelation
Chloe has a Question, A Very Important Question,
And co-wrote Messages About Me: A Journey to Healthy Body Image with Kyle Roberts and Jenny Webb.

For adults, she and her team created:
Conversations with My Kids: 30 Essential Family Conversations for the Digital Age (Co-written with Melody Bergman and Jenny Webb)
How to Talk to Your Kids About Pornography
30 Days of Sex Talks (for ages 3-7, 8-11, and 12+)
30 Days to a Stronger

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07RV936SM
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 14, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4215 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 142 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,474,208 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #176 in Child Discipline
- #500 in Family Health (Kindle Store)
- #555 in Medical Adolescent Psychology

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Led by Dina Alexander, M.S., Educate and Empower Kids (EEK) doesn't just provide resources – we're on a mission to equip parents and educators with the tools they need to ignite true empowerment in kids within the Digital Age. Our inventory of resources goes beyond the ordinary, urging you to forge profound connections with your children through meaningful family dialogues, and purposeful parenting.
At the heart of our philosophy lies a belief that empowering kids in today's world entails more than just setting rules; it's about instilling digital citizenship, honing media literacy, and fostering a healthy understanding of sexuality, including the crucial awareness of online pornography's dangers.
Our children's books that go beyond the surface: Messages About Me: Sydney's Story and Messages About Me: Wade's Story, guide parents and children through discussions about healthy body image. Then comes Noah's New Phone, an essential tool to steer conversations toward positive digital citizenship. And let's not forget Petra's Power to See: A Media Literacy Adventure, a journey that nurtures critical thinking in the realm of media.
We have an array of offerings: the dynamic 30 Days of Sex Talks Program, the transformative 30 Days to a Stronger Child Program, and the indispensable guide on How to Talk to Your Kids About Pornography. But that's not all – our virtual resources and community workshops span across the nation, working tirelessly to enhance the digital landscape of kids everywhere. Find those on educateempowerkids.org.
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Dina Alexander is the founder and CEO of Educate and Empower Kids (educateempowerkids.org), an organization determined to strengthen families by teaching digital citizenship, media literacy, and healthy sexuality education—including education about the dangers of online porn. She is the creator of How to Talk to Your Kids About Pornography and the 30 Days of Sex Talks and 30 Days to a Stronger Child programs.
She is also the author of Noah’s New Phone: A Story About Using Technology for Good and Petra’s Power to See: A Media Literacy Adventure, and the co-author of Messages About Me: A Journey to Healthy Body Image and Conversations with My Kids: 30 Essential Family Discussions for the Digital Age.
Dina received her master’s degree in recreation therapy from the University of Utah and her bachelors degree from Brigham Young University. She loves to travel, work out, read, and volunteer her time to various church callings. Dina grew up in Southern California, the third of five children. She is a great mom and loves spending time with her husband and three kids. Together, they live in New Mexico.
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Ben Olson

IF YOU HAVE KIDS YOU NEED THIS BOOK

Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2019

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I am SO thankful I stumbled upon this book and I ordered it! It is organized into five areas so it is easy to skip around to the topic you choose to go through with your children. I feel that you could easily adapt the majority of the content for smaller kids 6-7ish but it is FABULOUS for older kids and teenagers. It is laid out that you can easily snag a couple good points and questions that can casually be brought up in conversations with your kids or you could have a good sit down conversation with the;m and discuss them more in depth. As the world changes somethings, we as parents, just assume our kids are on the same page in thought as we are, this book really helps to "hear" the kids out, and it is a way to build a stronger bond through communication. Seriously I can't say enough FABULOUS book. If you have kids.... YOU NEED THIS BOOK!!

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Great questions for family discussion

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AMAZING objective, leading questions on so many topics. As a family life educator, I'm thrilled with this book.

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Great Parenting Resource

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2019

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I really like this book. The discussion topics are organized into categories and then subcategories which make it easy to find what you want when you want it. I found each of the topics relevant to today’s children. Some of my favorite discussions are “Using Technology for Good”, “Getting Along and Standing up for Others”, “Finding Real Joy”, “Agency”, and “Racism and Tolerance”.
There are five main topics with 5-7 subtopics/discussions. Each discussion is broken down into an introduction/ background, discussion questions, activity ideas, and resources/citations.
I found the book very user friendly and full of great topics.

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LESLIE

Essential guide on how to discuss real life issues now.

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2019

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Some of the topics in this book are tough to talk to your kids about. This guide makes it so much easier and leads to open honest discussions and not necessarily a one-sided opinion. I found it very helpful in engaging my kids as we discussed world issues and I was able to find more about their point of view. The more I listened to them the more I learned.

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This is such an important book for our times! Plenty of great discussions that can easily be done in a family night, on a family drive, or even in a classroom setting. Each "conversation has a short introduction, thought-provoking questions, and then an activity. I have kids tweens and teens and these can be easily done with them or even younger kids.

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Hillary

Great advice for parenting

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Great advice for parents of any expertise level. It's always good to have insight from an outsider's perspective. Parenting is no easy feat.

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Educate Empower Kids products are amazing!

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2019

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Anything by Educate Empower Kids is amazing, gives you. Starting point for talking with your kids and keeping lines of communication open.

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Ramona

The most needed book of our time!

Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2023

As a Mother with a certification in Parent Education and someone who has studied Family Science extensively I cannot recommend Educate Empower Kids more! Dina Alexander, the founder of Educate Empower Kids and author has an informative and articulate way of educating families and kids on the most important discussions we should be having in the digital age! This book covers everything from proper digital hygiene to how to befriend a new student at school. It’s an easy to read and is research and evidence based! This book helps to guide parents to have the most meaningful and informed conversations we can be having with our kids in the digital age!

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