Riverside School PTA Health & Wellness Committee 2024-2025

The VP of the Health & Wellness Committee is Jackie Dowling.

This year we hope to spark some conversations amongst parents, with teachers, and most of all with our children about how we use technology as a tool, and how we protect ourselves from the dangers inherent in it. We will also attempt to bring tools and conversation about our mental wellbeing in an effort to reduce stigmas and help each other to find ways to reach out and reduce feelings of shame, isolation, and anxiety.

Here you will find some resources to help you get started:

Resources for Parents on Digital and Tech Wellness:

Video:

• “Parenting in a Digital Age” 

Books:

• Creating a Tech-Healthy Family: Ten Must-Have Conversations to Help You Worry Less and Connect More With Your Kids by Andrea Davis
  
• Behind their Screens by Emily Weinstein

Guides and Tools to work with at home with your children or just to educate yourself:

• Digital Safety Resources Tools for the Home
  
  
• Reviews for what your kids are into (before they get into it)
  
  
• Family Engagement Toolkit
  
  
• Family Media Agreement
  
  
• A resource some schools are using to proactively work with digital wellness
  
  
• https://consumer.ftc.gov/identity-theft-and-online-security/protecting-kids-online
  
  
• Family Online Safety Institute
  
  
• Parent’s guide to Cyberbullying

 Resources for Parents on Mental & Emotional Wellness:

• Permission to Feel, a book  by Marc Brackett (also offered on audible.com)
  
  
• A resource many schools, including some local private schools, are using to proactively work with mental and emotional wellbeing
  
  
• Breathe2Relax app
  
  
• Headspace Guide to Meditation Netflix Trailer
  
  
• The Calm app and meditations