How to Protect Kids Online: Why Prevention Has to Come First

The Screen Guardians Podcast, Teaching Digital Safety

If you’ve ever felt the pit-in-your-stomach worry about your kid’s phone, their group chats, or who might be messaging them in a game lobby — you’re not alone. And if you’ve ever wondered why we, as a community, are so good at responding to...

Raising emotionally well kids in the age of algorithms

Teaching Digital Safety

When you think about your own childhood, you may remember the sound of gravel crunching under bike tires. You remember unscheduled afternoons, neighbors who knew your names, and long, meandering conversations on porches or in backyards until the streetlights clicked...

The Screen Guardians Program Kick Off: Building Safer, More Focused Schools—Together

Teaching Digital Safety, Screens & Schools

This past week was one I will never forget. After months of preparation, advocacy, and behind-the-scenes work, the Screen Guardians Program officially kicked off—not quietly, and not in just one place. What began as a vision is now in active implementation, across a...

Listening between the lines: A conversation about digital safety, from the inside out with Dr. Currie Myers

The Screen Guardians Podcast, Teaching Digital Safety

In a world where screens are always on and digital threats are often invisible, conversations around digital safety for kids have never been more necessary—or more urgent. In a recent episode of America’s Criminologist, Dr. Currie Myers sat down with Katie Longhauser...

Running toward the hard conversations: A story of heartbreak, hope, and digital safety – Conversation with Ben Tracy

Digital Wellness for Families, Children's Mental Health in the Digital Age, Teaching Digital Safety

I’ve always believed in the power of a story—especially when it comes from someone who’s lived every moment of it. That’s why I invited Ben Tracy onto the Screen Guardians platform. Ben isn’t just a digital safety advocate. He’s a man who ran across the United...

When a child’s voice is ignored, we all lose

Teaching Digital Safety

There’s a story making headlines in Riley County (Kansas)—but it’s more than a headline. It’s a wake-up call. A 17-year-old girl recently stood in a courtroom and testified about abuse she endured as a child. Abuse she had bravely spoken about years earlier. Abuse...