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angela_amman's review against another edition
5.0
Galit Breen saw one of her online articles spur comments not about what she'd written, but about the way she looked in the accompanying wedding photograph. The unkind comments left her reeling, but they also planted the seeds of Kindness Wins, a practical guide for helping our kids practice online kindness as they come of age in a world where fingers fly over keyboards without the common courtesy filter most of us have the sense to use in face-to-face interactions.
Each chapter of Kindness Wins shares a different online "habit" kids can practice, with the goal of thoughtful, kind interaction. Reading the sections doesn't feel like a manual; it feels like you're sitting down with a friend and figuring out how to help your kids make informed, careful decisions about what they post online.
Additional resources and bullet points for each chapter make the book reference-friendly — you can come back and revisit parts as they become more pertinent in your child's life. Kindness Wins even includes contracts for internet use, for kids and their parents, which is crucial for families who are entering the world of Instagram accounts and other social media platforms.
Talking about what we share, how it can be perceived and misconstrued, and how we comment on and interact with the content our friends — and our non-friends — share, is a continuing conversation, and Kindness Wins makes it a little simpler to figure out how to have that discussion.
Each chapter of Kindness Wins shares a different online "habit" kids can practice, with the goal of thoughtful, kind interaction. Reading the sections doesn't feel like a manual; it feels like you're sitting down with a friend and figuring out how to help your kids make informed, careful decisions about what they post online.
Additional resources and bullet points for each chapter make the book reference-friendly — you can come back and revisit parts as they become more pertinent in your child's life. Kindness Wins even includes contracts for internet use, for kids and their parents, which is crucial for families who are entering the world of Instagram accounts and other social media platforms.
Talking about what we share, how it can be perceived and misconstrued, and how we comment on and interact with the content our friends — and our non-friends — share, is a continuing conversation, and Kindness Wins makes it a little simpler to figure out how to have that discussion.
vikkir's review against another edition
5.0
This is a great book for parents and educators that not only spells out the challenges facing our kids online but equips us all to meet them. The book provides specific examples from current social media platforms and concrete tips to help kids (and parents) to become good online citizens.
connieaw's review against another edition
5.0
This book is aimed at parents to explain to their children how to behave online but I think there are plenty of adults that need these lessons too. We need more kindness and consideration in our online lives.
larosareads's review against another edition
5.0
AMAZING resource for parents, educators and our youth!
northstar's review
5.0
Full disclosure: the author is an acquaintance. I bought a copy of this and expected to learn some tips on how to teach my children to navigate social media. Breen provides those tips, but what she really wants to do is start a conversation. How do we treat people online? What is OK to post, and what is not? How do we react when something online hurts us? She doesn't pretend to have all the answers but the short and punchy chapters in this book provide plenty of raw material for conversations with our children, our partners and our friends. This is a very quick read (just over 100 pages) and is worth your time if you engage with people online. And no, you can't have my copy. I am keeping this one for reference.
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