Google and Sesame Workshop have partnered together to create a collection of resources centered around Digital Well-being.
As a proud supporter of Sesame Street, Google is committed to helping kids and families safely learn, grow, and play online.
About Google
At Google, we’re committed to helping kids and families safely learn, grow, and play online. Everything we do for kids and families is created to empower, designed to respect, and built to protect. Growing up in today’s digital world offers incredible opportunities for learning and connection, while also creating the opportunity to teach kids and families how to create a safe and healthy relationship with technology. That’s why we are thrilled to work with Sesame Workshop as they help support the next generation of smarter, stronger, and kinder kids.
Through Google.org – the philanthropic arm of Google – we bring the best of Google to organizations around the globe by providing support through our funding, programs, and technical expertise. If you’re looking for resources to help your family navigate the online world, here are a few that could help:
- Help empower your kids to be safer, confident explorers online
- Create a supervised account for your kids
- Set the right parental controls for your family
- Find balance with technology as a family
- Stay aware of your kids’ online activity
While digital media may bring challenges, confusion, and sometimes concern, it’s great to start thinking early about healthy, joyful ways to use media as a tool — and as a family — to connect, learn, and relax!
C is for Choice
A game about making choices, big and small.
C is for Choices
Elmo and Louie make choices on how and when to use technology as a family.
“Celebrating Choices” Collage
Celebrate the ways you choose to spend time together as a family!
Making Healthy Choices Around Digital Media: A Conversation with Vikki Katz, Ph.D.
Learn strategies for making good choices for your family’s digital well-being from expert Vikki Katz, Ph.D.
Understanding Digital Well-Being: A Guide for Parents & Caregivers
Digital well-being is about understanding and making choices about media as a part of family life, in order to learn, play, connect, relax, and feel closer to one another.
Paws & Notice
Wes, Elmo, and their dads, Elijah and Louie, practice being aware of how they feel when using media and how they know it’s time to take a break.
Noticing and Choosing
Learn about the three steps Elmo takes to transition away from screen time.
Mindful Choices: Using Digital Media with Awareness and Intention
Learn how to make mindful media choices for your family and yourself!
Children As Family Storytellers
With your help, children can use technology to become family storytellers.
Staying Connected
A printable about using technology to stay connected.
Making Connections
Watch this video and learn how Rosita and Abuela use screens as a tool for connection.
Whole-Body Listening
Whether children are interacting with others on a screen or in person, you can help them build their ability to focus, concentrate, and block out background noise and other distractions by helping them practice whole-body listening.
Switch It! Routine
Watch Julia, Sam, and their dad, Daniel, practice their family’s Switch It! Strategy, to transition out of screen time.
Try It! Stop, Stretch, Switch
Try this strategy to help little ones transition away from screen time.
Bring the Energy
Watch Rudy’s Mommy Maggie help him transition out of screen time playfully.
Talk… and Color! Adult-child Coloring Page
An activity with tools, tips, and playful ideas to empower families to foster digital well-being and develop healthy habits related to media and technology.
Talk About It– Rosa & Rosita
Watch this video to learn how Rosita and her mom, Rosa, use media as a tool to connect with one another.
Tech Talk
An activity with tools, tips, and playful ideas to empower families to foster digital well-being and develop healthy habits related to media and technology.
Growth Mindset…for Grown-ups!
Staying positive can help you navigate changes and take on challenges with confidence.
Learn Along the Way
Watch this video to see how Elijah and Daniel navigate changes in media and technology with a positive attitude.
Soothing Without Screens
An article about working through big feelings and tough transitions without a screen.
Snow Day on Sesame Street
A story about the ways screen time can be “together time.”
AI and Us
A video about explaining AI to young children… and using it together as a family in helpful, interesting ways.
Building Healthy Habits Around Media Together: Our Family’s Digital Well-Being Journey
A family activity book with tips, strategies, and activities for building healthy habits around technology.
Habits for Family Well-Being in a Digital Age
This online course equips providers to support families and young children with digital well-being strategies and engaging content to foster safe, connected, and enriching media experiences—both online and offline!
Episode 1 – Ask an Expert: Choices
In the first episode of this six-part series, hear from an expert about how daily decision-making plays a role in family digital well-being.
Episode 2 – Ask an Expert: Notice
In episode two of a six-part series, explore strategies your family can use to build awareness about feelings, choices, and behaviors related to technology and media use.
Episode 3 – Ask an Expert: Making Connections
In episode three of this six part series, explore ways that families can use media and technology to connect and strengthen their relationships with one another.
Episode 4 – Ask an Expert: Talking About It
In episode four of this six-part series, explore the importance of open and honest communication around family media and technology use.
Episode 5 – Ask an Expert: Switching It Up
In episode five of this six-part series, explore strategies to support families in building flexibility and navigating transitions.
Episode 6 – Ask an Expert: Learn Along the Way
In this final episode, explore the importance of staying curious and maintaining a positive mindset surrounding digital well-being.
We’re Connected
Watch this video to discover habits to support digital well-being for families.
We’re Learning as We Go
Watch this video and discover habits to support your family’s digital well-being.
