Parenting in the Digital Age

Kids are growing up in an environment where screens, algorithms, and online communities shape nearly every aspect of development. Today’s parents are the first generation to raise children whose socialization, identity formation, and daily routines often unfold online. This digital landscape brings opportunities for learning and creativity, but it also accelerates emotion dysregulation, social comparison, impulsivity, cyberbullying, and exposure to adult content.

What This Panel Discussion Can Offer:
Through the combined perspectives of clinicians, youth-focused educators, and state leadership working to regulate the digital landscape, the panel will explore:

• How today’s technology environment is shaping children’s emotional development, including the roles of social media, algorithms, and AI driven interactions in anxiety, depression, isolation, and identity formation.
• What families and educators are seeing in real time from youth navigating digital spaces.
• How trauma-informed and DBT-aligned parenting strategies translate to the online world.
• What is happening at the policy level to protect children, including bipartisan legislative efforts.
• How families can move from feeling powerless to becoming informed, connected, and engaged, both inside their homes and in the broader systems shaping children’s lives.

More than information, this panel offers clarity, validation, and actionable direction. It helps caregivers strengthen their connection with their children while also understanding the larger cultural and legislative shifts working to safeguard youth mental wellbeing.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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Host or Publisher Hillside Atlanta Foundation