From social media, apps, video games, texting, cyberbullying, privacy, and identity theft, guiding kids in a digital world can be overwhelming. Parents need concrete strategies to manage technology in our homes in ways that fit our family values and culture. Naked Parenting is parenting stripped down to the bare basics focusing on seven keys to raising kids who are self-sufficient, confident, respectful, and resilient. The seven keys - love, honesty, communication, responsibility, discipline, mistakes, and gratitude - guide the discussion in this book on technology and cyberspace. Naked Parenting approaches parenting in an honest, direct, and realistic way. Guiding children with love, nurturing their strengths and self image, and instilling personal responsibility are at the heart of Naked Parenting. It's hard, if not impossible, for parents to keep up with the pace of technology. Forget juggling work, kids, commitments, volunteer jobs, and laundry. The good news is you don't need to be literate in every new thing that crops up. However, you do need an awareness and a parenting framework that adapts to whatever comes next. We need ways to manage technology in our homes in a big picture, broad way that will teach our children good digital citizenship, online responsibility, self-regulation, and how to benefit from technologies while staying safe. It's a huge and important job. So how do we tackle all of that? Naked Parenting: Guiding Kids in a Digital World gives usable tips applicable broadly to the digital world from a parenting perspective instead of from a techie viewpoint. While some specifics are used in examples and stories throughout the book, this is not meant to teach you any details about any currently popular Internet or mobile innovation. With the rapid changes in technologies, I want to give you tools that transcend specific platforms, devices, video games, or the app of the moment. The principles of Naked Parenting overlap, interrelate, and reinforce one another. Understanding these seven keys will help you apply them across the countless scenarios of parenting through all stages and ages.
About the Author: Leah's childhood dream was to become a mother and an author, though she never expected her first book to be Naked Parenting: 7 Keys to Raising Kids With Confidence. This parenting book stemmed from her main gig as a mother of three. Married for over 21years, Leah's current parenting adventures revolve around kids, tween and teenagers, creating the basis for her Mother's Circle parenting blog, www.motherscircle.net, where she shares perspectives on parenting from pregnancy through teens. For fifteen years, her career focused on birth, babies, and early parenting as a certified childbirth educator, a birth and postpartum doula. Her pre-baby professional experience was in public relations and event planning. Leah loves empowering others through writing, teaching, coaching parents, and as a leadership facilitator. She is completing her debut novel and has also written articles for publication in the The Huffington Post, International Doula, The Key, FamilyShare, and local publications. She parents, writes, teaches and volunteers in Rhode Island where she lives with her husband, three kiddos and their cockatiel, Piper.