PROLOGUE
1. Landscape: What Today’s Social Media World Looks Like for Tweens
and Teens
The New Language of Technology and Social Media
So Much Has Changed, Yet So Much Remains the Same
How Social Media and Technology Affect the Overall Educational
Experience
Summary
2. Background: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going, and Why It
Matters
How We Got Here
The New Social Media
Why All of This Is a Big Deal in Terms of Tweens, Teens, and the
School Experience
Summary
3. Side Effects: Five Ways Social Media Affects Today’s Tweens and
Teens
Altered Expectations
Mixed Messages
Information Overload
On-All-the-Time Mentality
“All About the Likes” Personal Values Development
Summary
4. Conversations: How to Talk About Social Media
Understand the Language and the Lingo
Use the Framework of Socialization, Self-Regulation, and Safety
Recognize the Importance of Attitude and Approach
Make It All About Them
Help Them Identify Their Values
Encourage Them to “Get Real” About Daily Choices and Habits
Work Collaboratively to Come Up with Acceptable Use Policies
A Word About Technology Addiction
Summary
5. Academic Wellness: Organization, Compartmentalization, and
Energy Management in the Age of Distractions
The New Language of Technology in Schools
How Social Media and Technology Affect Academic Wellness
Optimizing Organization with Virtual Folders and In-Real-Life (IRL)
Binders
Mapping Out Assignments and Activities
Managing Time and Energy
Stress: The Art of Monotasking and Encouraging Personal
Productivity
Finding Flexibility for Different Learning Styles
The Cheating Dilemma
Summary
6. Social and Emotional Wellness: Encouraging Students to Be
Healthy Online and In Real Life
The New Language of Social Media Socialization
How Social Media Affects Friendships, Relationships, and
Personality Development
Helping Students Figure Out Their “Why”
Encouraging Students to Define Qualities of Healthy
Relationships
Recognizing Negative Compensatory Behaviors
Understanding Connection Versus Isolation
Closing the Empathy Gap and Cultivating Compassion
Promoting Appropriate Social and Emotional Boundaries
Developing a Plan for Guidance and Support
Acknowledging and Validating the Bystander Experience
Summary
7. Physical Wellness: Finding Balance in an Unbalanced World
The Teetering Imbalance
Promoting Sleep
Encouraging Stress Management
Focusing on Functional Exercise
Understanding Addiction
Knowing the Signs and Getting Help
Protection from Physical Harm and Danger
Summary
8. Moving Forward: Implementing the Strategies at School and at
Home
Things to Think About at School
Reflecting as a School
Things to Think About at Home
Reflecting on the Home Front
Recommended Reading List
Acknowledgments
Endnotes
Index
Ana Homayoun is a noted teen and millennial expert, author,
speaker, and educator. Her work focuses on promoting organization,
time-management, personal purpose, and overall wellness for young
people. Her first book, That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week:
Helping Disorganized and Distracted Boys Succeed in School and
Life, quickly became a classic among parents and educators for the
pragmatic approach to executive functioning issues. Her next book,
The Myth of the Perfect Girl: Helping Our Daughters Find Authentic
Success and Happiness in School and Life, explores the real-life
dilemmas of young women today and provides strategies for finding
authentic success and happiness. Her latest book, Social Media
Wellness: Helping Teens and Tweens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital
World, decodes the new language of social media socialization, and
provides practical strategies to encourage better choices online
and in-real-life.
In addition to her individualized consulting services, Ms. Homayoun
travels around the world working with schools, and frequently
provides parent education, student presentations, and professional
development presentations. Her work has been quoted or featured in
the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, San Jose
Mercury News, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and ABC News, among
others, and is a frequent guest on NPR.
She is the founder of Green Ivy Educational Consulting, a Silicon
Valley-based educational consulting firm. For more information,
please visit www.anahomayoun.com and www.greenivyed.com.
"Ana Homayoun has written the very book I’ve yearned for, a
must-read for teachers and parents. I have been recommending Ana’s
work for years, but Social Media Wellness is her best yet; a
thorough, well-researched and eloquent resource for parents and
teachers seeking guidance about how to help children navigate the
treacherous, ever-changing waters of social media and the digital
world."
*Jessica Lahey, Author of New York Times bestseller "The Gift of
Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can
Succeed"*
"This is the book I’ve been waiting for. Ana Homayoun gives
concrete strategies for parents to talk with their teens without
using judgment and fear as tools. This is a guidebook you can pick
up at anytime, and which your teen can read, too. I’ll be
recommending it to everyone I know."
*Rachel Simmons, Author of New York Times bestseller "The Curse of
the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and
Confidence"*
"This is the essential guide to navigating the ephemeral and
transactional communications woven into the language of social
media online and IRL. I relished every page of this book. It was
jam-packed with sound and seasoned self-management and
executive-functioning tips and systems. The research
and artfully reconstructed narratives, tools, ideas, and
reflective questions feed the systematic and practical
approaches the author shares to empower students, parents, and
educators alike. I can’t wait to add this to my professional
library and share it with all of my teachers!!!"
*Lisa Johnson, Author of "Cultivating Communication and the
Classroom"*
"I wish every parent, teacher, teen and tween knew Ana Homayoun as
I do. As a journalist, she’s long been my go-to source for advice
on social media dilemmas affecting families because she is smart,
wise and—above all—empathetic. I’m so glad to see Social Media
Wellness is now available to everyone. Buy it. Like it. Share
it."
*Steven Petrow, “Digital Life” Columnist*
"Keeping up with tweens and teens on social media often seems like
a dizzying task that leaves us, the adults, lost and confused--too
often giving up. Social Media Wellness brings great clarity to the
matter offering actionable advice for parents and schools. In her
typical style, Homayoun is realistic, pragmatic and refreshingly
straight forward. She gets our attention without using scare
tactics and then gives us, parents and educators, the tools to most
effectively help out children find wellness in the social media
age."
*Andrew Davis, Head of School*
"In our selfie society, teens and tweens encounter constant
temptations and threats to their social, emotional, physical, and
academic health. Ana Homayoun’s new book provides strategies to
"unselfie" our teens and develop a healthy, balanced relationship
with social media."
*Michele Borba, Author of "Unselfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in
our All About Me World"*
"Ana Homayoun demonstrates how social media and our digital lives
have reoriented relationships and how we think. In her book she
offers vital tools and strategies for this revolution - whether
you′re a teacher, parent or student. I found myself challenged from
each of these viewpoints!"
*Homa Tavangar, Global Education Adviser*
"Rich with stories and thoughtful interpretations of tweens′ and
teens′ online habits, curiosities, and consequences, Ana provides
parents and educators an especially powerful resource to
confidently guide our students and children with tools, counsel and
reassurance as they navigate social media. Bravo!"
*Stephanie Balmer, Head of School*
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