Raising Catholic Kids

RAISING CATHOLIC KIDS

Dr. Peter Kreeft

Thursday, September 15

7:30 - 8:30 pm (followed by Q & A)

Dowling Catholic High School Auditorium

Description: Peter Kreeft, Boston College Professor of Philosophy, father, grandfather, and author over 60 books, includingBefore I Go: Letters to Our Children About What Really Matters, will share from his personal experience an inspiring reflection on how you can raise your kids Catholic in a world sometimes hostile to faith.

YOUR FAMILY AND CYBERSPACE: RAISING SAINTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Mr. Brandon Vogt

Wednesday, September 28

7:00 - 8:00 pm

Dowling Catholic High School Auditorium

Description: Ninety percent of children over five use the Internet.  Over 96% of young adults have joined at least one online social network. Kids ages 9-17 now spend more time using social media than watching television. The Internet, blogs, social networking, and text messaging have profoundly changed our children's world.

What does this mean for parents? What are the dangers and risks of new media? How can we use these tools beneficially as we raise our children?

Join Catholic new media expert Brandon Vogt as he explains the Church's wisdom on media and the family.  Using "Your Family and Cyberspace," a guide prepared by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Vogt will lay out a path
toward raising saints in our digital world.

Brandon Vogt is the author of The Church and New Media: Blogging Converts, Online Activists, and Bishops who Tweet. He blogs at www.ThinVeil.net and was one of 150 Catholic bloggers recently
invited to the Vatican to dialogue with Church officials about social media.