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Make (Good) Trouble is bringing parents together this Monday evening to talk about parent-teen communication. Three parents and a school-based art therapist will join BBC Radio Sussex’s Kathy Caton to discuss the triggers, flare ups and tips to help everyone get on better.

Tune in to BBC Sussex radio for our half hour feature from 9pm – a live round table discussion on parenting teens.

If you have a question, story or top tip to share about how you manage your parent-teen communication, leave a comment below!

Listen in on The Big Takeover with Kathy Caton from 9pm, Monday 4 March on BBC Sussex.

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Hands up if you’ve read the Terms & Conditions when you signed up for a social media account (or anything else online for that matter!)?

The Children’s Commissioner tested social media platforms’ terms & conditions out on children and none of the kids they asked understood them. Did you know that:

“Snapchat can publically display or sell any content young person puts on Live or Local Snapchat, meaning they can use a young person’s face and voice in any way, how Instagram can read a user’s Direct Messages and how all companies collect a range of person information including how long you spend on certain pages, where you are and who is in your phone book. They remind children that YouTube is owned by Google, so if you create a YouTube account, your data will be collected by Google and linked to other information Google has about you.” (childrenscommissioner.gov.uk)

Thankfully, the Children’s Commissioner has published handy versions for us so we can better understand what we’re all signing up to. If you’re a parent, you could use these to discuss them with your children.

We don’t think parents should ban kids from using social media. We do think children (and everyone else) should properly understand what they’re signing up to.

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We’re holding a special event as part of the Spring Forward Festival, a month-long celebration of the role of women in digital culture and runs throughout March in parallel with Women’s History Month.

The speed of technological change has created a landscape that often makes little sense to today’s parents. How do teens understand technology? Has it rewired the teenage brain? Is the teenage experience in 2019 any tougher now than it was for previous generations?

Join teens, parents and experts for a frank and open discussion about the positive and negative aspects of being a teenage girl today – from the future of work to behavioural trends, body image and a digitally networked life.

Book your ticket today!

  • Brighton5 founder, Daisy Cresswell, talks about our mission and our work with teens 
  • Screening: Short film, Teens and tech
  • Analytics company, Station10, talk about algorithms and the future of our increasingly networked world 
  • Q&A: Teen and parent panel discuss the teenage brain and how we can arm the next generation with the resilience to succeed
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Brighton5's Daisy Cresswell with BBC Sussex presenter Danny PikeBrighton5 founder Daisy Cresswell was a guest on BBC Sussex this morning talking to presenter Danny Pike about  screen time,  parenting and how social media companies need to change. Children’s Commissioner, Anne Longfield has today written an open letter to social media organisations about this very issue,

She discussed how Brighton5 is teaching children how social media platforms work and how they are designed (with Vegas style gaming techniques). Banning children isn’t necessarily the answer. Let’s start a conversation with our teens and arm them with knowledge.

Have a listen to a clip here!