Parenting in the Digital Age & Gig Economy: 5 Proven Strategies for Health, Online Safely, Digital Literacy, Citizenship, Life Hacks, Social Skills, AI, Homeschooling, STEAM Education

Introduction & good practices

• Course guide, tips, and emoji meaning list
• Introduction
• For parents, happiness is a very high bar
• Parenting in the digital age
• Digital media in family life
• Myths about screen time
• What will future jobs look like?
• Do schools kill creativity?
• Learning how to learn
• Happy Kids = Successful and Innovative People, and the Montessori method
• How to raise successful kids, without over-parenting
• Gifted kids are more sensitive
• Hackschooling makes me happy
• How will I educate my children
• “I am a Fan of Homeschooling”
• Agile Family practices which encourage flexibility

Health & Wellness

• Smart Kids Eat Healthy food
• SmartKids know how to cook healthy food
• We are what we eat
• Kids need to sleep well and enough
• Meditation
• Kids Grit, sport, willpower, and self-discipline for success

Life & Social Skills

• Quality questions and curiosity driven research
• Switch to English, “trained ear” for multilingualism, and music
• The benefits of a bilingual brain
• Kids love to read, read with them!
• The Power of Reading
• Grit: the power of passion and perseverance
• Critical Thinking
• Kids learn by themselves by doing, with teamwork and sharing. Play with your children!
• Children friendships and good relationships make the difference
• What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
• Kids need trust and learn from mistakes
• Kids will invent a new job and launch a Start-Up
• Let’s raise kids to be entrepreneurs

STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) & Coding

• Use technology wisely, not “to keep kids busy”
• Gaming: The Minecraft experience
• Coding: Smart Kids are creative, they love to experiment, design, program, and prototype
• What is CoderDojo?
• Kids became Developer and create their own games
• Let’s teach kids to code
• The poetry of programming
• Learning is an active process: Tinkering & Making
• Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do
• We are makers
• How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination
• Hands-on science with squishy circuits
• How I Teach Kids to Love Science