View this email in your browser (http://us10.campaign-archive2.com/?u=6ed42cda03012774a98ca3add&id=91261aaac2...) ** ------------------------------------------------------------ For weeks our Facebook feeds have been filled with pictures of new school uniforms – a sure sign that a new school year has begun. Notices of parents’ evenings, new teaching loads and student requests are surely piling up… so before swinging into action why don’t you take grab a cup of tea and catch up on a few recent blog posts on parenting and technology (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/) that you might have missed? (As always click here (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/subscribe/) to subscribe) Over the summer we’ve been busy, with media appearances (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2015/08/26/recent-media-appea...) talking about safety using devices (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/11794464/Cyber-safety-How-protected-ar...) while on family vacation, to the decision about whether ‘sharenting’ (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2015/06/17/managing-your-chil...) your child’s exam or school results online is appropriate, to the importance of knowing what your kids do online (http://www.channel4.com/news/half-of-parents-fear-their-children-are-addicte...) . In ON OUR MINDS (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/category/on-our-minds/) we’ve covered the publication of recent research on the importance of parents’ own education and skills (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2015/09/21/parental-education...) in managing kid’s media use and inspiring ways that parents can contribute to media literacy programmes (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2015/08/18/media-literacy-in-...) . We’ve tackled some big issues, thinking about how parents can deal with online extremism (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2015/07/31/online-extremism/) and the importance of parents as witnesses in the case of the Syrian refugee crisis (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2015/09/07/alan-kurdi-and-par...) . In FROM OUR NOTES (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/category/from-our-notes/) we provide on-going updates from our research project on Parenting for a Digital Future. Sonia wrote about the importance of studying families from a Media Studies perspective (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2015/07/24/why-study-parentin...) , and we provide on-going reviews (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2015/08/07/its-complicated/) of key recent literature including danah boyd’s study of teens and social media It’s Complicated (http://www.danah.org/itscomplicated/) . Posts from guest bloggers AROUND THE WORLD (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/category/around-the-world/) continue to grow in depth and scope. We’ve learned from parents in Australia (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2015/08/05/parentinginbabylon...) who set up a Minecraft server as a ‘digital backyard’ and about how grandparents and grandchildren in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2015/09/02/grandparents-grand...) negotiate shared mobile phone use. Guest posters have written about the importance of making connections through social media in rural Mexico (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2015/08/28/big-dreams-big-num...) , and on the process of asking young people to imagine the future in coastal England (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2015/09/11/planning-and-imagi...) . We’ve covered the increasing ‘mediatization’ of young people’s lives in Germany (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2015/09/16/young-peoples-medi...) , the role of social media in maintaining gender segregation practices in Pakistan (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2015/07/29/around-the-world-3...) and on parents and children learning and playing together through games in Jamaica (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2015/08/12/learning-more-than...) . Finally, after several requests we created a round up of key resources (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/resources/) for parents trying to untangle the digital world with their children. These are all non-commercial places to go to for advice and ideas. We’ve got many more great posts and a number of research updates planned for the autumn, so please do subscribe (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/subscribe/) and share our blog (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/) on your own networks if you can. Get in touch if you’re interested in contributing. ============================================================ ** (http://www.twitter.com/) ** (http://www.facebook.com) ** (http://mailchimp.com) Copyright © 2015 London School of Economics and Political Science, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you expressed interest in our project. You can unsubscribe from this list at any moment. 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