{"podcast":{"title":"Parenting Tips for Moms and Dads of School-aged Children & Teenagers: The Impactful Parenting Podcast","slug":"parenting-tips-resources-and-strategies-for-moms-and-dads-of-children-teenagers-impactful-parenting-3419885","podcast_index_feed_id":3419885,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/theimpactfulparent/feed.xml","website_url":"https://theimpactfulparent.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/10303822/pocast_cover_w467e2.png","author":"Impactful Parent","episode_count":100,"summary":"The Impactful Parenting Podcast helps parents turn their chaos into connection with their children. Through meaningful stories, the podcast provides parenting tips for making family life easier! Why? Because school-aged children bring different challenges to parenting that younger kids don’t. The Impactful Parenting Podcast provides help for raising your adolescent child. So if you’re asking yourself questions like: • ”Is this normal?” • ”Why is my teenager doing this?” • ”How do I get my child to stop?” • ”I am so frustrated. What do I do?” • ”Is anyone else experiencing this? I can’t be the only one.” • ”I am worried. What can I do?” Then YOU HAVE FOUND THE RIGHT PLACE! Hi! I am Kristina Campos. I am the founder of the Impactful Parent and my passion is creating better relationships between parents and their children. The teen years don’t need to be difficult. Teenagers CAN have a special bond with their parents! Listen and learn how the Impactful Parenting Podcast can help YOU, too! Let’s do this!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-02T00:19:23.069486+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/parenting-tips-resources-and-strategies-for-moms-and-dads-of-children-teenagers-impactful-parenting-3419885"},"episode":{"title":"346: Internet Safety: Teaching Critical Thinking to Teenagers","slug":"346-internet-safety-teaching-critical-thinking-to-teenagers","published_at":"2026-07-01T11:09:38+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/parenting-tips-resources-and-strategies-for-moms-and-dads-of-children-teenagers-impactful-parenting-3419885/346-internet-safety-teaching-critical-thinking-to-teenagers","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/parenting-tips-resources-and-strategies-for-moms-and-dads-of-children-teenagers-impactful-parenting-3419885","url":"https://theimpactfulparent.podbean.com/e/346-internet-safety-teaching-critical-thinking-to-teenagers/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ugidfcawvkm6yp9p/teenagers_social_media_7ynx5.mp3","summary":"Internet safety: Teaching Critical Thinking to Teenagers If a stranger walked up to your teenager on the street and tried to manipulate what they believed, you’d step in instantly. But it’s happening every single day, completely undetected, right through their screens. In this eye-opening episode of The Impactful Parent, host Kristina Campos welcomes Dr. Mari Davies, a senior lecturer in education and author of Teaching Critical Thinking to Teenagers. Together, they pull back the curtain on the multi-billion-dollar algorithms engineered to capture your teen’s developing brain. While tracking apps and screen limits offer temporary fixes, the real secret to long-term internet safety is building ”cognitive immunity” through critical thinking. In this episode, Kristina and Dr. Davies break down: The Algorithm Advantage: What parents are truly up against when a teen opens TikTok or Instagram, and how these apps weaponize personal demographics [02:43]. The Teenage Brain on Social Media: Why a natural dip in adolescent dopamine makes teenagers uniquely vulnerable to online risks and the ”imaginary audience” [05:27]. The Street Smarts Model: A deep dive into the 4 core pillars—Respect for Self, Reasons, Difference, and Change—and how they apply to a scrolling feed [11:55]. Spotting AI and Fake News: Dr. Davies’ number one rule of thumb for handling outrageous influencer content and advanced voice/image deepfakes [19:17]. The Power of Healthy Arguing: Why teaching your kids (especially girls!) to respectfully debate and voice their opinions at home keeps them safe from real-world predators [24:07]. Stick around until the end, where Dr. Davies shares a single, effortless question you can ask your teen today to immediately trigger their critical thinking muscles [32:17]! 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