Dear parents/caregivers,

This newsletter highlights some of the serious risks facing young children and teens in the online world today. If you missed our discussion on the challenges, opportunities and risks facing parenting in the digital age, you can watch it back here or listen to an audio of it on your commute to work ➡️ Soundcloud

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Online Grooming

Prime Time looks at new data from hotline.ie showing a sharp rise in pre-teens sharing sexually explicit images of themselves online. Orla Stewart shares her harrowing experience of being groomed online from the age of 10 for almost three years. Our CEO, Alex Cooney is interviewed in studio with family psychotherapist, Richard Hogan.

13 on TikTok

Self-harm & suicide content shown to 13 year olds shocks experts. Kate McDonald's Prime Time report investigates the impact of TikTok algorithms on the mental health of children. Within minutes, the accounts which TikTok understood to be controlled by 13-year-old users, were into a mental health content rabbit hole.

Talking to teens about pornography

Geraldine Walsh, Irish Examiner talks to our CEO Alex Cooney and Sarah Sproule, occupational therapist and sex educator about why parents need to have an open conversation with their teens about watching pornography, no matter how uncomfortable it might feel.

Raised by the Village

Under the guidance of Richard Hogan, family psychotherapist, the youngsters are moved to remotely located rural families, where they experience an early-to-rise, wifi-free, outdoor lifestyle that’s a million miles away from their worlds of PlayStation, TikTok, fast food, late nights, and all-day lie-ins.