Richard R RamosRichard R. Ramos. Founder of Parents on a Mission,Youth on a Mission, and Latino Coalition for Community Leadership

5 Truths Every Parent Must Know About Raising Kids in a High Tech World

15 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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Modern parenting happens in the most aggressive influence environment ever, shaped by tech platforms and media designed to manipulate. The speaker outlines five key truths to help parents teach kids to recognize and resist deceptive tactics, replacing fear with discernment and critical thinking skills.

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And that I'm just one part of a collaborative effort to empower you and. And to help you understand, at least you know enough. Again, this is not about fear. We don't need to be afraid of it, but we do need to understand it and how it works and how to raise our children to have the discernment and the wisdom so they're not being deceived and won over, as it's happening to so many parents and their children now. In my last episode on this, I talked about five main points that I wanted to lay kind of a foundation. Number one is for you to realize you are parenting in the most aggressive influence environment in history. That's just true. Number two, the rules of the influence game have changed, and that's something that none of us were prepared for.