Nationally-renowned Speaker Tells It Like It Is

CONNECT WITH KIDS, Founder & Nationally-renowned Speaker: STACEY DEWITT [photo attribution: http://www.parentsandcompany.com/images/pnc_cwk.jpg]

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Megan McPheely, Editor-in-Chief
April 22, 2010
Filed under Campus Life

Audiences nationwide have heard her speak on today’s ethical and character development challenges. On April 22, STACEY DEWITT, addressed Internet challenges that students and adults face today as she spoke to junior and senior high students at GACS. Numerous parents were also in attendance.

“Technology offers an enormous power, so you as teens must learn to self-manage; you must learn to self-check,” DeWitt told students.

DEWITT is a documentary producer, CEO and child advocate who appears on local and national television and has published print and media which include her real life stories and her passion about connecting with kids in the 21st century.

“If you don’t remember anything else I say today, remember these three points,” DEWITT urged students.

1. If you wouldn’t say or show something to your own mother, don’t say or show it on Facebook or through other technologies.

2. Everyone has an internal radar. If your internal radar causes you to doubt or worry about what you’re about to do, don’t do it.

3. Finally, YOU decide who YOU are going to be. Realize that constant self-management is critical. Your use of technology affects you not just physically, but emotionally and socially as well.

DEWITT advised students to think twice before making quick decision which could have lasting, negative consequences on their lives. “You (students) know about technology, but we (parents/adults) know about life,” suggested DEWITT. She urged teens to trust the experience and knowledge of their parents.

Thank you, STACEY DEWITT, for sharing your experiences, your knowledge, and your compassion with students, teachers, and parents at Greater Atlanta Christian.

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