Broadmeadow PTC Parent Forum  

How to Help Your Child Thrive in the Digital World:  

Practical strategies to help you set limits and
foster positive communication about technology 
with your elementary school-aged child

Dr. Jill Walsh 

Join us for an evening with Dr. Jill Walsh focused on technology and our children. Learn how to set limits and foster positive communication about technology with your child. Dr. Walsh will help us to be proactive instead of reactive in supporting our children's technology use. She will discuss screen time, first phones, well-being and privacy.

This lecture is FREE to the entire Broadmeadow community! Click here to register:

About the Lecture

Technology creates many opportunities and challenges for young children. The same is true for parents and caregivers who are tasked with guiding them through childhood in a digital world; a world most of us never experienced until adulthood. We cannot pretend that digital technology does not impact our children, but in what ways and to what effects? And why are they always so drawn to their devices?

Dr. Walsh's talk is geared towards parents/caregivers of elementary school students. She will explain the most common platforms used by young children and outline the landscape of tween digital media use so that we know where our children are headed. She will provide practical tips for conversations and strategies parents can employ around important technology topics like:

• screen time
• navigating the first phone
• supporting friendships in their digital social worlds,
• impacts on psychosocial well-being
• privacy

Her goal is to help us be proactive instead of reactive in supporting our children’s technology use. Dr. Walsh believes that positive conversations around technology, coupled with healthy boundaries, can help our children thrive in the digital world.

Dr. Jill Walsh

Dr. Walsh is a researcher and lecturer at Boston University, and an advocate for our children. She studies their world, learns from their perspective, and translates that on a global scale to help close the generational gap so that parents and educators are able to make informed decisions around the digital, social and emotional health of our kids.

Dr Walsh obtained a PhD in Sociology from Boston University, and earlier earned a Masters in Public Policy from Brown University and a B.A. from Harvard University. Prior to completing her graduate coursework, she taught, coached, and mentored high school students at the Noble and Greenough School for five years.

Her recent work examines the way that social media, and the need to document the self online, has altered the paths to adolescent development.