INFORMATION FOR PARENTS AND FAMILIES

WEBSITES

Social Media Resources to Support Your Mental Health - Kids Help Phone

• Article with resources that can help individuals learn more about social media and set boundaries around when and how to use it.

Parenting, Media, and Everything in Between - Common Sense Media

• Articles, guides and videos media and social media.

GetCyberSafe.Ca - Government of Canada

• Website for the national public awareness campaign created to inform Canadians about cyber security and the simple steps they can take to protect themselves online.

How Using Social Media Affects Teenagers - Child Mind Institute

• Article about social media effects on teenagers.

Social Media: What Parents Should Know - Canadian Paediatric Society

• Foundational information on social media, safe usage, limits, online privacy, cyber bullying, and sexting.

VIDEOS

The Parent Network: Social Media and Your Kids - Managing Excessive Use - MediaSmarts

• Tips for parents on how to manage and monitor the amount of time kids spend on social media, alongside the impacts of social media on physical and mental wellbeing.

Social Media, Social Life: Teens Reveal Their Experiences - Common Sense Media

• Video about both the positive and negative experiences teens have had with social media, told by teens.

INFORMATION HANDOUTS

Teaching Kids to be Smart about Social Media - KidsHealth

• Article about the good and bad aspects of social media and what parents can do.

Social Media for Kids: The good, the bad, and the ugly - Kids Baron

• Article that looks at both sides of the argument and tries to come to a conclusion about whether or not kids should be using social media.