Digital Wellness
In today's interconnected world, Village Consultancy empowers families to navigate the complexities of digital wellness. We recognize children are immersed in a media-saturated environment, necessitating healthy media habits that strengthen character and manage screen time effectively. Our sessions delve into nurturing responsible independence in the online world, providing practical tips and resources for parents.
We address critical topics such as sexuality education, aligning with MOE guidelines to facilitate quality conversations with teens. Understanding the psychology behind gaming, we guide parents in fostering healthy gaming habits and recognizing potential addiction signs. We equip parents to tackle the pervasive issue of pornography, offering strategies to help teens understand its harms and navigate online content discerningly.Â
Moreover, we provide essential tools for dealing with bullying, both online and offline, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for your family's digital journey.
Who is it for?
The Digital Wellness workshops are designed for parents and families looking to navigate the challenges of a media-saturated world while fostering healthy online and offline habits.Â
By exploring the psychology behind digital behaviours and understanding the effects of media exposure, families can foster a balanced, mindful, and informed approach to technology use. This empowers families to strengthen character, resilience, and overall well-being in an ever-evolving digital landscape.
Brain Defense: 5 lessons for families on online safety
Children aged 9 to 12 years old will learn self-discipline with screen time, choosing content to consume, and creating a balance with real-world activities.
They will also learn safe habits such as the CAN DO plan to avoid digital danger from pornography, predators and bullies as good digital citizens who practice kindness, integrity and respect.
Sexuality Education
Are you wondering how your child will learn about sexuality education in school?
Are you unsure whether to opt your child out of the school’s program?
Join us to gain insights and practical tips on how to engage your child in meaningful conversations about healthy sexuality.
Topics Covered:
Nurturing Healthy Media Habits In Our FamilyÂ
Our children are growing up in a media-saturated world. How can we build healthy media habits that will strengthen their character, nurture better screen time management and manage inappropriate media content? This session will provide a child development perspective to nurturing our children to gain independence in the online world, and suggest practical tips and resources for parents.
Let's Talk About Sexuality Education
This session helps parents to gain awareness on how sexuality education is taught in MOE, and how to engage in quality conversation with their teens on how to care for themselves and others responsibility.
Let's Talk About Healthy Gaming
This session introduces the human psychology behind gaming and how we can support our teens to make wise choices about gaming, and suggest practical tips and resources for parents to be confident in building healthy gaming habits in their family. Can you spot the signs of online gaming addiction? As our children gain independence in using devices, they are exposed to different kinds of games that are designed to keep gamers in their games as long as possible, and ideally spend money in the game. How can we nurture healthy gaming habits in our children that will provide a strong foundation for them as they enter their teenage season? We warmly welcome families to join us in this interactive workshop, especially with different perceptions of what’s a healthy amount of screentime is.
Let's Talk About Pornography
Pornography is accessible anytime anywhere via mobile devices. How can we help our teen understand the harm of pornography and how to deal with them? This session provides practical tips on how to guide our teens in navigating online pornography.
Talking To Tweens & Teens About Pornography & Sexting
Our children and youths are growing up in a media-saturated environment that is hyper-sexualised. How can we raise them to be discerning of inappropriate content, especially pornography? How can we guide them towards healthy sexuality? This session will discuss how pornography impacts brain development, and how to engage in conversations with our teens on healthy sexuality.
Talking To Tweens & Teens About Love & Friendship
Your child will learn the different kinds of love (such as family love, platonic love, romantic love) as well as different levels of friendship. There will also be discussion on what boundaries are needed for the various levels.Â
Talking To Tweens & Teens About Sex and Abortion
Your child will learn how pre-marital sex could impact them and understand the biology of abortion. This will help them to be better informed on how to take care of themselves and others as they gain independence online and offline.Â
Talking To Tweens & Teens About The Meaning Of LGBTQ Labels & Gender Identity
Your child will learn why labels are unhelpful, and discuss how to deal with attractions and understand how their identity is formed. Your tween will learn about differences between the sexes, what is gender dysphoria & impact of dangerous and permanent changes to their bodies and minds.Â
Dealing With Bullying, Online And OfflineÂ
We will discuss how to manage cyberbullying.Â
