News & insights
Practical guidance, expert perspectives, parent stories, videos, and podcasts—organized so you can quickly choose what to read, watch, or hear.
Featured stories
Public leadership, expert analysis, and lived family experience—each with a dedicated story page.
Protecting children online requires more than individual household rules. Families, technology companies, schools, and lawmakers all have a role in creating expectations that put children’s well-being first.
Open this story →Expert voiceDr. Zeke Emanuel frames youth social media harm as a public-health challenge—one that calls for clearer evidence, stronger norms, and coordinated action instead of leaving every family to solve it alone.
Open this story →Parent storyOne mother’s honest account shows how quickly a phone can reshape sleep, relationships, and self-regulation—and why compassion, structure, and sustained support all matter in recovery.
Open this story →Written guidance
Each item gives you the central idea without burying the practical takeaway.
AI companions can feel private, patient, and emotionally convincing. Begin with curiosity, explain that the system is designed to keep a conversation going, and make a plan for what should always be brought to a trusted person.
Connected toys can collect a child’s voice, habits, and personal details while imitating friendship. Review privacy settings, test the toy together, and choose products that make recording and deletion policies clear.
Children need a repeatable way to pause before trusting an image. Look for the source, compare coverage, reverse-search when possible, and talk about why a convincing image might have been made.
Families do not have to adopt every new tool immediately. Slowing down creates room to ask what the technology replaces, what information it collects, and whether it supports the child’s actual needs.
Video library
Longer stories and short focused clips are grouped by series, so families can choose what fits the moment.
Digital VanguardSenator Jon Husted: Protecting Kids in the Digital AgeEight concise videos connect parenting, platform accountability, and public policy.Watch 8 videos →Digital VanguardKristin Bride: A Parent’s Call for Platform AccountabilityA parent advocate connects lived experience with the urgent need for safer platforms and meaningful accountability.Watch 2 videos →
Digital VanguardAdam Billen: What Technology Policy Must ConfrontEight focused clips examine opaque systems, known harms, transparency, whistleblowers, and public consensus for change.Watch 8 videos →
Digital VanguardAva Smithing: Building Youth Voice and PowerA young leader discusses attention, student voice, and the importance of giving young people a role in shaping change.Watch 4 videos →
Digital VanguardLennon Torres: A Young Person’s PerspectiveA candid full-length interview brings a young person’s experience and judgment into the digital-safety conversation.Watch interview →
Parent filmParenting in the Age of TikTok: Regret and HopeA mother’s firsthand story of phone addiction, intervention, and gradual recovery.Watch the story →Teen TalkAdvice From Young PeopleSeven candid conversations about boundaries, grooming, oversharing, authenticity, and digital permanence.Browse 7 videos →Podcast conversations
Two conversations with Christine Vineis about children’s online safety, practical family boundaries, and the power of collective action.
Chris Vineis discusses how social media and AI can affect children, why families need practical boundaries, and how collective advocacy can create safer digital spaces.
Listen on Apple Podcasts ↗Christine Vineis explains why she began organizing families against social media addiction and how parents can respond to cyberbullying and online harm together.
Listen on Spotify ↗Digital Vanguard
Parents, policy advocates, and young people connect lived experience with the changes families need from technology, schools, communities, and government.
Kristin Bride brings a parent advocate’s perspective to the human consequences of platform design and the responsibility of technology companies to protect children.
Adam Billen explains why protecting young people requires transparency, accountability, and policy that responds to both known harms and systems the public cannot fully inspect.
Ava Smithing describes how young people can reclaim their attention, find their public voice, and help shape the policies and culture that affect their digital lives.
Lennon Torres adds a young person’s lived experience to the conversation—helping families and decision-makers understand digital life from the inside.
Information is most powerful when families can use it together.
Turn what you learned into a practical next step.