The White Hatter Podcast

“Parenting In An Online World Podcast” presented by The White Hatter, and hosted by Darren Laur, a multi-award-winning social media safety and digital literacy advocate. We strive to provide parents, caregivers, educators, and law enforcement with a more holistic approach to online safety in an enlightening and not frightening way, based on facts and not fear. We will provide listeners with real-world examples, experiences, and evidence-based research that will help to keep our kids safer when they are navigating today’s online world.

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Episode 20

Is My Child Ready For Their First Cellphone?

As social media safety experts, advocates, and coaches who present to thousands of parents throughout Canada and the United States, one question we are usually asked is, “What age do you think a child should be gifted a cell phone.”, – this is especially true during the Christmas season when youth are hoping for a...

Episode 19

Mom/Dad - I Want To Be A Pro-Gamer or Social Media Influencer

When we speak with students, especially those in elementary schools and middle school, about what they want to do as a career when they grow up, the two most common answers we hear are #1 “I want to be an online professional e-gamer” or #2 “I want to be a social media influencer”. On this...

Episode 18

Teens & Vaping

On this podcast we are going to be talking about vaping. Although vaping is not the internet, a social media platform, or app, it definitely plays a role in today’s teen social media culture. Given this fact, and the significant medical contraindications of vaping, we wanted to dedicate this podcast to shed some light on the vaping...

Episode 17

Online Privacy & Security

There will always be those who will want to harvest our personal information they locate and collect online that will then be weaponized and used to their advantage. Once this information is gathered, it can be posted publicly as a form of public shaming, or as a weapon to commit a variety of different crimes such...

Episode 16

The Deep/Dark Web - What Parents & Caregivers Need To Know

During our student presentations over the past year, we have noted an increase in the number of questions from both middle school and high school students about the “Dark Web”. Why is this happening? – we hypothesize that media, in all its forms, is shining a light on this part of the internet which may...

Episode 15

Cyberbullying Part 2 Parenting & School Strategies

On this podcast episode, we are going to be talking about “cyberbullying” or what we like to call digital peer aggression. This topic deserves so much attention that in episode #14 we talked about the who, what, where, when, how, and why of cyberbullying, and on this podcast episode we are going to look at...

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