by Manuela | Jan 11, 2019 | Friends Like Me Videos
From Cartoons to Porn in Seconds – Part 1 W hen my son was nine he saw online porn for the first time. His friend had arrived for an afternoon play date. I was at home and checking on them every now and then as they ran around the house. After a...
by Manuela | Dec 20, 2018 | Friends Like Me Videos
Can we forgive ourselves when our children don’t seek our support? Iwinced when I heard this young man express how upsetting he found the Netflix drama series 13 Reasons Why. I winced because I’m his mother and I had never spoken to him about it. And I can see, from...
by Manuela | Dec 9, 2018 | Friends Like Me Videos
Can we resist condemning the younger generation? I was recently attending an Internet safety conference in Brussels and one of the youth representatives put up his hand and asked the speaker: “You’ve given a lot of advice in your speech about how adults can...
by Manuela | Nov 22, 2018 | Friends Like Me Videos
Are we willing to meet “the other” in our children’s media? I n the early years of teaching media camps, I would sometimes ask students if they would like to share their favourite Youtubers with the class. We would watch clips selected by the students (with...
by Manuela | Nov 6, 2018 | Friends Like Me Videos
Are we missing opportunities to nurture and engage our children by relating to their media? Over the last decade, I have been running media literacy classes in a wide variety of schools and educational programmes. I teach parents, educators and students how to make...
