PARENTING
RESOURCE
GUIDE
Part of our vision for Hill City Kids is to come alongside you to help equip, inspire and encourage you in your parenting— with the goal of building a healthy relationship with your child and healthy family so that they can grow in their faith and relationship with Jesus better!
DIGITAL SAFETY & MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES
Setting up Parental Control Guides
iPhone/iPad Device Level Settings
YouTube and YouTube Kids
Search for more guides at Internet Matters
Additional Resources
Sage Parents— resources to help set healthy technology boundaries for children, focusing on screen time limits, online safety, and fostering positive digital habits. Their free guidebook provides ten recommendations for managing screen time and encouraging offline activities.
Screen Sanity— offers a range of tools, resources, and trainings to assist in navigating the challenges of raising "digital natives." The mission is to help kids balance technology use & foster a healthier relationship with screens, reducing the negative effects like anxiety, loneliness, and screen addiction
Better Screen Time— offers free resources and downloads aimed at helping families establish healthy digital habits and screen time boundaries such as the Family Technology Plan and Teen Tech Talks Checklist
Children and Screens— brings together experts from fields like neuroscience, psychology, and pediatrics to explore how technology affects cognitive, social, and physical health
Common Sense Media— provides expert reviews, advice, and age appropriate recommendations on games, apps, and more
Hang 10 Movement— a set of 10 technology practices for communities of Christians who want to receive the gifts of technology while fighting against its evils.
Thorn for Parents— focused on issues related to sexting, online grooming, and sexual related harms and equipping parents on how to have age appropriate conversations
Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI): Good Digital Parenting Guide helps families navigate safe and responsible tech use.
Fuller Youth Institute (including Request for App sheet)
Generations and iGen by Jean Twenge
Taming the Technology Monster by Sissy Goff
The Tech-Wise Family by Andy Crouch
NOTABLE
MENTIONS
PARENT CUE GUIDES
ages 0-18
STORYBOOK BIBLE
CHILD WISE
FOR TEENAGERS