Tech-Savvy Parenting

Publisher: Bookstorm

•Are you a parent looking to make sense of a daunting digital world, with new technical challenges appearing daily?
• Feel you’re not keeping up with the demands of technology?
• Feel you’re not keeping up with your children’s use of social media?
• Worried it’s getting harder to keep your children safe in the digital world?

Tech-Savvy Parenting brings together the experience, research, observations and advice of respected parenting expert Nikki Bush, and leading technology commentator Arthur Goldstuck. This insightful duo will help you get a handle on what’s happening in the digital space to ensure your children are safe and savvy in this fast-changing world. They’ll guide you through the terminology, dangers and opportunities of technology, while placing children’s use of all things digital firmly in the context of the relationship between parents and their children.
For families to remain connected, both online and offline, and for young people to develop into responsible digital citizens, parents must bridge the digital divide to their children by understanding the attraction of social media and technology, how communication is changing, and how technology is changing the world. This book is filled with practical advice that will help you to navigate the digital space, together with your children, with greater confidence.

Nikki Bush is co-author of two bestselling books, Future-proof Your Child and Easy Answers to Awkward Questions, writes a weekly parenting column and is a regular radio and TV guest in South Africa. She is the parenting expert for SABC3’s Expresso, the family expert for Longevity magazine and is on the advisory team for Living & Loving magazine.

Arthur Goldstuck publishes the online consumer technology magazine Gadget.co.za, and is author of 18 books, including South Africa’s bestselling information technology book yet, The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Internet. His weekly gadgets column is the most widely syndicated technology column in South Africa, and he also writes the weekly technology trends column, Signpost, for the Sunday Times.