Bench Banter by Boomerang Parental Control
28 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHosted by Justin Payeur, Dad & Boomerang Parental Control Cofounder, Bench Banter helps families truly navigate the murky waters of family technology use at all ages. Listen to learn straight-forward take-aways that will help your family use tech in a healthy way.
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Month in Review 11 - Removing stigma of video games
April 16, 2021 14:57 - 57 minutes - 105 MBAs we mentioned in our previous episode, we chat about violent games and their impact on kids, adults and families. For background on this subject, tune into a previous Bench Banter episode with Dr Patrick Markey, author of Moral Combat: Why the war on violent video games is wrong.
Month in Review 10 - User Privacy Focused
March 05, 2021 17:11 - 43 minutes - 79.2 MBWe've love to hear from you and any subjects you'd like us to cover - let us know [email protected] We cover recent privacy focused subjects including: Apple vs. Facebook - Apple's iOS 14.5 privacy focused update. How websites and apps track you even when you’re away from them. Chrome changing how they handle cookies - how users are tracked online. Facebook’s WhatsApp upcoming privacy policy changes. Decentralized social media platforms.
Month in Review 09 - Content matters with Screen Time
February 05, 2021 18:04 - 43 minutes - 79.2 MBJesse Miller from Mediated Reality returns in joining me for our month in review chats. Screen time needs to shift to the content consumed vs time spent. UBC (University of British Columbia) Research that supports keeping our kids active and how it is good for their wellbeing even though many areas around the world are under very restrictive rules around social gathering and team sports. FOSI (Family Online Safety Institute) compiled data on a survey they performed with a group of 1,200 U...
TeLeni Koochin - Publisher and founder of BAZOOF!
July 15, 2020 18:31 - 33 minutes - 61.9 MBTeLeni Koochin, Publisher and founder of BAZOOF! joined us to share how she got started with BAZOOF!, a brand that creates children’s content dedicated to encourage reading and learning, deepen understanding of good health in the growing years, help readers think beyond the page in developing the building blocks of a strong character, and spark the endless creativity youth naturally have giving them opportunities to be published. As a bonus, TeLeni is also an active Boomerang Parental Contr...
Month in Review 08 - Social Media Platforms updating their Content Policies
July 03, 2020 22:27 - 43 minutes - 79.4 MBA big trending topic from the past 30 days is how social media platforms have started to improve their content policies with the goal of educating their users about misinformation, old posts that may not be relevant today and flagging or remove content related to hate speech. We also discuss what is being a "Karen" and how teens with lots of time on their hands, have been mimicking the behavior. TikTok and several other apps were exposed by Apple's upcoming iOS14 scrapping the iOS clipboar...
Dr. Patrick Markey - Author of Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wrong
June 09, 2020 18:36 - 1 hour - 125 MBDr Patrick M. Markey, PhD, is a professor of psychology, the director of the Interpersonal Research Laboratory at Villanova University, and a former president of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research. Markey received his doctorate from the University of California. Dr Markey is the author of the science based books Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wrong and, coming soon, "F*ck Divorce. We discuss how violent games are used as an excuse for school shootings eve...
Month in Review 07 - Fired up
June 04, 2020 00:06 - 43 minutes - 80.3 MBLucky #7 month in review with Jesse Miller. Almost halfway through 2020 - why does it feel like such a long year. So much stuff to chat about... Are we one screenshot away from losing our jobs (or NHL career)? Social media as a megaphone! We review May which had so much going on with social media posts, moderations, riots, pandemics, fake news and more. We live in truly crazy times. Is the future of social media paid? How the fitness app, Strava, made more freemium features available only f...
James Achilles - Vice President of Kidzworld
May 21, 2020 22:56 - 39 minutes - 73.2 MBJames Achilles is the Vice President of Vancouver-based Kidzworld Media, charged with all aspects of the company’s internal and external growth and management. The content-rich, cloud-based mobile website fosters 2 million+ monthly visitors, who view 18.5 million page views per month from 200+ countries. The online vehicle is designed to offer safe & secure information for 9-16 year-olds, alongside numerous Fortune 500 advertisers. It is also present on the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Instag...
Month in Review 06 - Privacy in our day to day communications
May 11, 2020 21:12 - 52 minutes - 95.9 MBFired up for another month stuck at home under COVID-19 isolation and cabin fever is setting in. Jesse Miller joins me in our 6th monthly review to discuss how shared content via social media platforms is too easily believed at face value. From photoshopped images to private conversations in group chats. Diversification in our opinions and views is important as a lot of content we view online can be curated based on our likes (think Netflix history, YouTube viewed history, News viewed, etc) ...
Andy Robertson aka GeekDadGamer joins to discuss gaming
May 03, 2020 15:50 - 41 minutes - 76.9 MBAndy Robertson took his love for writing and gaming to build Family Gamer TV, he’s also a freelance writer for Forbes, The Guardian, BBC and MirrorTech. Andy also presented a TEDx Talks on Sustainable Perspectives on Video Games. We discuss various subjects about games, too much time spent gaming, game ratings (ESRB and PEGI), how they can be an escape for the day stresses and distractions - not all games can do this so Andy has also built a database for games that provides additional insig...
Alan Katzman - Founder & CEO of Social Assurity
April 15, 2020 15:44 - 43 minutes - 80.1 MBAlan Katzman is a Social Media Strategist & Educator and the Founder of Social Assurity. Alan shares how post secondary schools use various analytics and KPIs to assess the chances of a student applicant accepting their enrolment. Alan goes into great detail in how schools assess student prospects and how they chose them based on various criteria including their social media accounts. In the current landscape we are in, many kids are graduating with a potential challenge to get the grades ...
Stephen Balkam - Founder & CEO of Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI)
April 03, 2020 23:19 - 25 minutes - 46.5 MBStephen Balkam, Founder and CEO of Family Online Safety Institute - an international, non-profit organization which works to make the online world safer for kids and their families - joins Justin Payeur on our latest episode to discuss Stephen's involvement in the mid-1990s on content concerns viewed via the world wide web, especially when it came to pornography. Then Stephen's shift to Recreational Software Advisory Council (RSAC) which created a unique self-labeling system for computer gam...
Month in Review 05 - How are we adjusting to home isolation
April 02, 2020 00:38 - 34 minutes - 63.4 MBOur month in review covers a few hot topics that families are adjusting to with the COVID-19 (coronavirus) impact. From relaxing screen time limits so kids and adults can keep in touch with their family and friends, lack of kid activities after school and the indefinite postponement of school classes across North America. We ever discussed about violent games, such as old school originals like Doom and comparing to the newer ones. The biggest issue is how realistic the games look like but it...
Carrie Rogers-Whitehead - Founder and CEO of Digital Respons-Ability
March 31, 2020 17:12 - 43 minutes - 79.7 MBCarrie describes Digital Respons-Ability as a low tech, tech company and is a state-sponsored provider including working Internet Come Against Children Taskforce, across the state of the Utah. Going back to basics is the focus when it comes reaching out to kids. Carrie takes a non-lecturing approach with the position of understanding the why behind negative online behaviour in kids. Carrie also looks at the culture lens when handling communications online. Adding Spanish services for her ar...
Month in Review 04 - How to digest the flood of misinformation (Coronavirus related)
March 13, 2020 15:07 - 34 minutes - 63.1 MBJesse Miller shares some thoughts on the flow of information regarding the Coronavirus (COVID-19). With schools closing down in some areas, massive amounts of information being shared on social media platforms, we cover what families can do in regards to the following: Check and diversify your information sources - Leverage technology, FaceTime friends/family across the world - get opinions from other places Schools closed, kids at home? Opportunity to reconnect as families, spend more t...
Chris Mackenna - CEO of Protect Young Eyes
March 12, 2020 15:52 - 1 hour - 111 MBChris joins us to discuss being pro technology and focusing on putting the right tech in front of kids. How online content needs to be discussed and filtered when it comes to kids. Protect Young Eyes’ Team has presented over 300 times in 2019 educating parents, kids and communities on keeping conversations going about technology use. Check out PYE’s Blog https://protectyoungeyes.com/blog
Month in Review 03 with Jesse Miller from Mediated Reality (TikTok)
February 11, 2020 06:14 - 50 minutes - 92.8 MBWe focus our month in review on TikTok - a social media platform that is gathering awareness and use by its growing user base. There’s a lot of good on TikTok and a lot of fear creation in media headlines lately. We cover how kids use it, the good side of it and tips on what parents should discuss with your kids in regards to TikTok and its content. We also cover awareness campaigns like Internet Safety Day (Feb 11th 2020) - why they are good but also why they should be celebrated more than ...
Sean Herman - Father, Founder & CEO of a new chat app Kinzoo
February 04, 2020 16:19 - 53 minutes - 97.9 MBSean Herman, Father, Founder & CEO of a new chat app, Kinzoo and the author of Screen Captured, joined me to discuss the inspiration behind it, a good chat with 2 dads raising kids with technology and why building apps to help families is important. Learn more about Kinzoo www.kinzoo.com.
Tiana Sharifi - Educator + Expert on Sexual/Online Exploitation & Human Trafficking
January 15, 2020 16:02 - 40 minutes - 73.9 MBTiana is a British Columbia-wide educator and expert on sexual and online/offline exploitation. Tiana believes that educating on an individual and institutional level is the key to keeping our children and youth safe from all forms of sexual exploitation. Resources: https://sexualexploitationeducation.com
Month in Review 02 with Jesse Miller from Mediated Reality
January 07, 2020 08:09 - 51 minutes - 94.4 MBWe take time to reflect on the past 10 years of social media, the platforms, the behavior changes in humans thanks to apps/smartphones and what to look forward to in the next 10 years. As big hockey fans, we ended up chatting about how the 2011 NHL Stanley Cup playoffs was probably a key moment of the past decade that exposed how shared social media content could be tracked. It also validated the need for digital media literacy education.
Chris Dancy - The Most Connected Human
December 13, 2019 20:21 - 30 minutes - 55.7 MBChris Dancy joins Justin Payeur, Boomerang Parental Control cofounder to chat how technology enabled him to become healthier. Chris is know as the "Most Connected Human" - Google it! We covered a bunch of other topics including how tech is now an extension of us, we must embrace it but let's keep the big companies accountable for using our data for their gain.
Month in Review 01 with Jesse Miller from Mediated Reality
December 02, 2019 17:09 - 26 minutes - 49.2 MBJesse Miller from Mediated Reality joins Justin Payeur, cofounder of Boomerang Parental Control on a monthly review chat about recent trends around social media, tech use, user/data privacy of cloud platforms and how parents need to do better in leading by example. As we wrap up another decade, we also chat on how the conversation has changed in the past 10 years for technology, social media use and more.
School rules regarding technology use - do you set the right boundaries?
June 03, 2019 22:28 - 1 minute - 2.81 MBSchool rules you may not be aware regarding smartphone/social media use with Jesse Miller from Mediated Reality https://www.mediatedreality.com/.
Sharenting, Digital Citizenship and Digital Consent on Social Media
May 27, 2019 20:31 - 6 minutes - 11.5 MBSharenting, Digital Citizenship and Digital Consent on Social Media - social media educator, Jesse Miller from Mediated Reality, brings common sense and surprises to our parental learning curve. It’s a must listen.
Be GOOD online and offline - they are the same
December 14, 2018 03:03 - 10 minutes - 9.59 MBExpert educator Jesse Miller from Mediated Reality joins Jody Vance to discuss digital citizenship and how to be a good one, at any age including how to handle the first time your child was bullied and ZERO tolerance on screen time IS NOT the answer. Get more on Jesse’s podcast The Kids Are Alright Podcast (http://www.tkaapodcast.com).
How to be a Good Digital Citizen with Jesse Miller from Mediated Reality
November 08, 2018 00:25 - 9 minutes - 8.91 MBIn episode three, expert educator Jesse Miller from Mediated Reality joins Jody Vance to discuss digital citizenship and how to be a good one, at any age. Zero tolerance on screentime IS NOT the answer, get more on Jesse’s podcast The Kids Are Alright Podcast (http://www.tkaapodcast.com).
How parental control apps can help parents and kids discuss technology habits
September 27, 2018 14:23 - 8 minutes - 15.5 MBIn episode two, Jody Vance again sits down with Justin Payeur, one of the Dad cofounders of Boomerang Parental Control to discuss how parental control apps can help parents bridge the gap between their knowledge of their child's smartphone usage and what's actually going on. Simple nudges such as daily emailed activity reports can help parents start conversations with their kids' tech usage today.
How teachers and parents can work together
August 30, 2018 21:49 - 8 minutes - 15.8 MBJody sits down with Justin, one of the Dad cofounders of Boomerang Parental Control to discuss a few common scenarios teachers and parents will go through in this back to school year.