In collaboration with Kaurilands School and Glen Eden Intermediate School, we have organised Filmmaker, Author and Speaker Rob Cope, Producer of the documentary "Our Kids Online" to come and give a humorous and eye-opening evening talk to our community.

Tickets will be on sale through Event Finder from Monday 14th July - Day 1 of Term 3. More details to follow.

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

• Selfies - The pressure to send inappropriate selfies 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.

Tickets will be limited and last year's event sold out - so get in early. It will be an evening event starting at 6.30pm and will run for approximately two hours. The venue is the Glen Eden Intermediate Auditorium. Tickets will be $10 via Buy Tickets - Eventfinder and will be on sale from the beginning of Term 3.