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You know your child

better than any algorithm ever will.

A six-session coaching module for parents raising kids in a world of screens, social media, AI, and online safety — without the shame, without the panic, and without a computer science degree.

Built on thirty years of working with families and the research on what actually keeps kids safer online. Designed for the parent who's tired of pretending she has it handled.

Start the module — $397 CAD

Self-paced. Lifetime access. Printed Reflection Journal mailed to you.

If you've quietly stopped looking at the screen time report —

this is for you.

It's 10:14 PM. You promised yourself you'd set up the parental controls tonight. You googled "best parental controls 2024" and found seventeen conflicting articles. Two hours later you closed the laptop, told yourself you'd come back to it, and three months went by.

Or you've already "handled it" — installed an app, set a screen-time limit, had the conversation once a year ago. And somewhere in your gut, you know the real story doesn't match the version you tell other parents at pickup.

Or your child has come to you with something hard. Something they saw, something they shared, something a stranger said. And you froze. You said the wrong thing. You're still carrying it.

None of this is failure. You are up against an industry that has hired tens of thousands of engineers to design products that are as compelling as possible — to adults and to children. You are not weak for losing focus to your phone. Your child is not weak for losing track of time on TikTok. The product was deliberately engineered to win.

Knowing that changes nothing about the practical challenge. But it changes everything about the shame.

Six sessions from now, you'll parent technology differently.

This is not a course on parental controls. It is not a workshop on screen-time rules. It is a coaching module for becoming the parent who can navigate technology with clarity and confidence — and whose child knows they can tell her anything.

By the end of this module, you'll have:

  • A working honesty practice — knowing what is actually happening on screens in your home, without the performance.
  • Your Platform Reality Map — a simple, honest audit of your child's digital world (not surveillance — knowledge).
  • Conversation scripts for the technology talks you've been avoiding (limits, safety, discoveries).
  • A practical framework for AI, deepfakes, and misinformation — and how to teach your child to think alongside technology, not be carried by it.
  • An Incident Response Plan — what to do, in steps, if something has already gone wrong online or if it ever does.
  • A Family Media Plan that reflects your family's values, not someone else's screen-time guidelines.
  • Your own modelling commitment — the change you'll make in your own tech use that your child will see.

Most importantly: the lived knowledge that you don't have to understand every platform to be the parent your child needs online. You just have to be present, curious, and unshockable. We'll get you there.

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What's inside the six sessions

Each session is roughly 75 minutes if you go through it all at once — but most people split each session across a few shorter sittings. Self-paced. No deadlines. The work doesn't expire.

This module is for you if…

  • You're a parent — single, partnered, blended, two-mom, two-dad, grandparent raising your grandchild, foster or kinship caregiver — of a child of any age who uses screens, social media, or the internet.
  • Your child is on platforms you don't fully understand.
  • Something has already gone wrong online — or you're worried it might.
  • You feel like you've lost the screen-time battle and don't know how to start again.
  • You're tired of pretending you have it handled.

This module is probably not the right fit if…

  • You need crisis-level intervention for an active online safety situation. (You need Cybertip.ca, NeedHelpNow.ca, or your local police cybercrime unit. Use those first.)
  • You want detailed technical setup of parental controls for specific devices. (You want a tech guide. This is a parenting module.)
  • You want a one-time workshop. This is six sessions, designed for depth and lasting change.

About Elizabeth

I'm Elizabeth Teasdale — BA, BEd, MEd Admin, MEd Counselling — and I've spent thirty years inside Canadian education as a teacher, an administrator, and a counsellor. I've worked with families navigating every kind of digital challenge you can imagine, and many you'd rather not.

I started Thrive Momma Coaching because I kept watching capable, fierce, deeply loving parents feel ashamed about technology — convinced they should have figured it out, should be doing more, should know which app, which control, which boundary. The shame was doing more damage than the screens. So I built a different way.

This module is built on the You Are Not Failing book series, Dr. Claire Zammit's Women-Centered Coaching framework, the JAMA Pediatrics research on adolescent online safety, and three decades of seeing what actually keeps kids safer in real homes.

Note: This is coaching and general education, not therapy, not legal advice, not medical advice.

TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIA NAVIGATION — COACHING MODULE

$397 CAD

One-time payment · Lifetime access

Includes:

  • 7 lessons (Welcome + 6 sessions)
  • Printed Reflection Journal mailed to you
  • PDF version available instantly
  • All practical tools and templates, welcome and nurture email sequence, and crisis resources.
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How it works

  1. Buy the module. You'll get instant access to the welcome lesson and all six sessions.
  2. Download the Reflection Journal PDF or wait for the printed copy in the mail.
  3. Work through the welcome lesson and Session 1. There's no schedule.
  4. Use the tools as real life surfaces them. Got a hard conversation coming up? The scripts are right there. Something went wrong online? The Incident Response Plan is right there.
  5. Come back as needed. Rerun the Family Media Plan every six months as your child grows.

Your child does not need you to understand every algorithm.

They need you to be the parent they can tell.

There's a version of you who can navigate technology with clarity, who has the hard conversations with calm, who knows what to do when something goes wrong, and whose child knows — without a doubt — that they can come to her. That parent isn't braver than you. She isn't smarter. She's just been given the framework you didn't have.

This module is the framework.

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Important — please read

This module is coaching and general education. It is not therapy, not medical advice, and not legal advice.

Some sessions touch on hard topics. If you are in crisis, or if anything in this module surfaces something that needs professional support, please reach out to a qualified counsellor, your physician, or one of the crisis lines listed in the welcome lesson (Canada): 988 — National Suicide Crisis Helpline; Kids Help Phone — 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868; Hope for Wellness — 1-855-242-3310; Trans Lifeline — 1-877-330-6366; Cybertip.ca for online child exploitation; NeedHelpNow.ca for image-based abuse.

Where this module references rights, procedures, or systems, it gives a general overview. For decisions specific to your child, your family, or a particular situation, please consult the appropriate professional — a doctor, a counsellor, a lawyer, your provincial parent-advocacy organisation, or the relevant service-specific support.

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