Thursday Thought Leaders – August 2026
Connected, But Distracted
NEWSLETTERS
– Family AI Project (familyaiproject.com) – The absolute best newsletter helping parents navigate kids and AI.
COURSES & PROGRAMS
– Phone License (phonelicense.co) – Parent-teen course to earn phone access like a driver’s license.
– Parent ProTech (parentprotech.com) – Digital safety guides and curriculum for families and schools.
ORGANIZATIONS
– Screen Sanity (screensanity.org) – Nonprofit equipping parents to raise healthy kids with tech.
– Hang Ten Movement (hangtenmovement.com) – Ten tech practices for navigating phones for kids.
PEOPLE TO FOLLOW
– @family_it_guy (Ben Gillenwater) – Cybersecurity expert teaching parents to protect kids online.
– @jonathanhaidt (Jonathan Haidt) – Social psychologist and author of The Anxious Generation.
– @protectyoungeyes (Chris McKenna) – App reviews and digital safety for families.
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Civics of Technology
Digital4Good
- Family Device Agreement
- Best Practices for Phone-Free Campuses
- Parent Guidelines
- Social Media Emergency Plan
- Instagram School Partnership
- Guidelines to Combat Snapchat Community Posts
- REACT Strategies
Fairplay
- Phone-Free Schools Administrator Toolkit
- Phone-Free Schools Ambassador Toolkit
- The Online Harms Prevention Action Kit
- The Screens & Learning Action Kit
- When Screens Take Over: A Parent’s Guide on Teen Digital Media Overuse
- It’s Time to Pause Gen AI in Schools
Free Your Feels
Georgia Department of Education
Kids’ Brains and Screens
Media Literacy Now
- Curriculum and PD Resources for Educators
- Massachusetts Attorney General’s Toolkit on Cell Phones and Social Media
- The Critical Role of Media Literacy in Health
Screen Time Action Network
University of North Carolina
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