This website was developed specifically for Parents, Grandparents, Guardians, Mental Health Professions: Three basic rules permeate this entire website.
Keep it clean, no politics, no commercialization. There is no left nor right. It is for all people in all countries. Research everything written thoroughly. All content is developed to help bring Awareness, Resources, and Solutions to Parents, …
Section I
1-The slide showconsists of 13 three second slides showing various virtual/real world pics of our youth in their world.
2-The Rating Charts for Parentsdisplay for now, 18 Social-Media and 15 Online Video Games that are presently the most popular at this time. It rates these apps and games in 13 Key Areas.
3-Our online Digital Brochure. You may certainly send this to others. It has 9 hyperlinks so one easily can go directly to a perticular section of interest.
Section II
4- Why this website, about my son Joel’s suicide that was tied into his passion for online video games and cyberbullying’s result.
5-How to Navigate this website, (this section) offers an outline of the entire website.
6-Alternatives to Social Media and Online Video games consists of Local Alternatives, in the lovely NW FL/SW Ga Region. It includes places that easily one can invest a day learning, experiencing history, wild life, springs, nature, animals, hikes, water activities, parks and much more. All with hyperlinks coming.
7-Gene Deckeroff, our prized “Local and National Voice”offers a 90 second review of his understanding of this website. LIsten while you scroll down this home page, to his insights.
8-The five parent guidelines are critical to establish boundaries within a family household.These guidelines will help with time use, keep open communications with our youth, make sure that all online activities are not conducted in privacy, and give basic commonsense parameters to help keep our youth from being pulled into potential inherit dangers that many of these games and apps open.
Section III
9-Social Media Apps-18 Social Media Apps have detailed information about each of the ones listed. Just click to read details that might be quite surprising about many of these.
10-Get Involved is a work in progress as we develop our non-profit, expand our local vision for this section of NW FL and SW GA to throughout the South, and the entire United States. We need volunteers to have a passion to help us bring our youth back into common sense balances with how much time they spend on online video games, sow into Social Media apps, and to become more aware of many of the inherit dangers that lie in wait for the unsuspecting.
11-Online Video Games is a list of 15 of the Most Popular and potentially dangerous Video Games offered across America and the world. Again, each of the games have a detailed report underlining many of the challenging, deeper aspects of these games that go right over the heads of most people that play them.
12-Our Support link is offered for you to consider giving a one-time, or a monthly gift, online. You will receive within 45 seconds, an email showing your amount and alll of the appropiate info needed for your tax free donation.
13-Is a listing of 33 Social Media Apps and Online Video Games, with detailed information, or clicl the Apps or Game button to go exclusively to that app or gaming section.
Tabs
-Under the Games tab is a buttonto take you to the direct parent controls for each of the gaming platforms that are commonly used to play online video games: X-Box, Playstation-4 & 5, Windows PC, Nintendo-switch Meta Quest Fortnight
-Resources is a section with local and national Mental Health Professionals with contact information. They are here to help both parents & youth.
-The Blogs are written from a variety of perspectives including Filter systems, mentality habits, pathways that are opened up with games and apps, Ai, quotes, common sense with tech foundations, and other areas of information, to help develop one’s personal, inner fortitudes.
-There are links to helpful websites, insights into the virtual world our youth live in, and numerous other sections, articles and information. All geared to help parents, grandparents, our youth, have a roadmap to navigate this Highly Technical and Digital World that is rapidly “taking over” almost all decision platforms and mechanisms that have major roles in our everyday life.
The technology in the coming years, will bring even stronger, more visual and powerful “digital worlds”, all designed to bring addiction to these surreal environments, in which most of our youth, and many adults live in today. AR (Augmented Reality) and VR, (Virtual Reality), when combined with 6G which is coming, Blockchain technology, and other Tech advances, will create a world that will be both fantastic, yet also quite dangerous in certain doors and pathways that will be opened.
So read up, we will do our best to keep you informed. We would like to hear back from you, at Info@ParentDA.org
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