Teens spend an average of nine hours per day immersed in their digital world, according to Common Sense Media. Children ages 8 to 12 average nearly six hours a day online. Their digital world allows them potential access to nearly 4.5 billion internet consumers.
Parenting a teen or child in the digital world can be overwhelming and challenging at best.
Bowling Green High School is hosting a Digital Empowerment for Parents event on Monday, Jan. 10, from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. in the Performing Art Center.
This free event is open to community members and is designed to educate parents by providing them with information they can use to develop a strategy to empower their children to make safe and healthy choices online.
The speaker for this event will be Captain Scott Frank, a retired Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Investigator and now internet safety expert and empowerment speaker from Oak Harbor. Frank founded the Digital Empowerment Project and has presented to tens of thousands of students, parents and educators.
Frank will discuss the risks of the internet with real life stories and practical takeaways. And, he will demonstrate to parents that despite the risks, the internet affords every teen and child the chance to embrace opportunities.
