This 6 week parent group presents ideas specifically designed for parents who wonder, “What can I do to help my online teen?”

Navigating the pull of this online world is often an overwhelming and scary task for todays’ parents. This course provides a map to help guide you through a challenge that has no easy answers. This content-based series provides you with tools you can begin using today. It is also an opportunity for you to connect with other parents who are experiencing similar challenges, and offers a space for support and understanding.

Facilitator: Bonnie Dyck, MSW, RCC

Bonnie has almost 20 years experience as a therapist and 7 years direct experience as a Family Therapist for a youth addiction program that inclusively addressed gaming/online addiction.

This course is supported by a Human-Nature Counselling Student Intern.

Series topics:

• Benefits and consequences of gaming, social media, and video sharing platforms
• Adolescent brain development
• Gaming/Social Media-reward pathway
• Addiction vs. problematic use
• Counterwill
• CALM Connected Parenting Approach
• Stages of Change
• Motivation and ambivalence
• Family foundations as a springboard to boundary setting
• Discipline versus Punishment
• Consequences
• Risk and Protective Factors
• Strengthening relationships through managing interactions
• Shifting of unhelpful entrenched patterns
• Maximizing your influence as a parent

Program dates:

• Tuesday, Oct. 11, 12 – 1:30 pm
• Tuesday, Oct. 18, 12 – 1:30 pm
• Tuesday, Oct. 25, 12 – 1:30 pm
• Tuesday, Nov. 1, 12 – 1:30 pm
• Tuesday, Nov. 8, 12 – 1:30 pm
• Tuesday, Nov. 15, 12 – 1:30 pm