Last chance for tickets!

Monday 20th November, 6.30-8.30pm

Because of the rapidly changing times, our tamariki are growing up in, and the mounting challenges and harms they are facing online we need to start talking about and tackling this as a community.

As such, we have organised Filmmaker, Author and Speaker Rob Cope, producer of the documentary ‘Our Kids Online’ to come and give what promises to be a humorous and eye-opening evening talk to our parent community.

His talk will cover

• Cyberbullying - How bullies can reach our kids 24/7

• Social media - How social media is affecting the mental health in 3 out of 5 children. FOMO, depression, anxiety.

• Gaming and the developing brain – An oversupply of dopamine leading to dopamine deficiency, synaptic pruning, and the underdevelopment of social skills and empathy

• Naked Selfies - The pressure to send nudes from intermediate up through high school

• Online predators - The methods they use, how to spot them.

• Online porn vs healthy sexuality - How consuming online pornography as a child or teen can create a sexual template where violence, aggression, and dominance are seen as normal and consent can become very blurry.

Solutions

• Filters - Which filters are best and how to install them

• Smartphones - How to lock down a smartphone to make it a safe phone

• Boundaries - How to put good boundaries in place around device use

• 3 golden rules - The 3 golden rules that will keep your kids safe

• Talking to your kids - How to have difficult conversations with your kids

• Challenging our own phone and device usage - Reconnecting as a family.

The talk will be held at the Omokoroa Sports Pavilion on Monday 20th November, 6.30-8.30pm.

We would request that at least one adult from each family attend, this topic is too big for us not to pay attention.

This event has been kindly sponsored by Blackridge Group/SABRE Construction. This allows us to provide tickets for only $5 each and the preferred method for purchase is through our school shop (Kindo) (but please see us in the office if you are unable to purchase online)

Click here to purchase tickets through Kindo

Tickets limited to 200. Please make sure to book early to avoid missing out on this event.

"We need to tackle this as a community so that all of our kids are safe. When I protected my kids online, I also protected yours, so please, please protect your kids online so that you are also protecting mine" Rob Cope

Kind Regards,

Craig Pentecost