Do you sometimes feel like a digital trespasser?

I do, and the coming of my first grandchild has spurred in me an intentional effort to explore this lived experience with my daughter. In the current context in which her children will be raised.

You are welcome to eavesdrop on our chats.

These conversations touch on today's generational differences and support systems as parents and grandparents

• Of how, why and whether faith figures in our lives

• How we shape the value systems of growing children when the clamour of the world is more and more demanding

• How to safeguard a child's risks of premature exposure to vulnerability

Stark difference

One day at the turn of the millennium, my young children were playing the PC game 'SIMS' which was all the rage (I can still hear the music now). I'd enjoyed seeing them create their simulated family house design, choosing to furnish and lay out the rooms and contents. Or to manage their character's energy, sleep levels and earning power. I realized they kept sending the Sim 'parents' upstairs to engage in a bit of hanky-panky under the bedclothes. Sparks flew in more ways than one.

That was the day I realized my parental boundaries has been prematurely breached under my very nose.

The example seems tame now by comparison and we are twenty-plus years on from those bedtime antics.

But first!

Parents, guardians, grandparents - we can rally all who want to stare down this monster of digital dangers. Let's come together to equip and prepare our precious children to thrive in an age of relativity and confusion. Caught between attention-seeking social media, intangible crypto-currencies, identity crises and fluid sexuality debates, artificial Intelligence, fake news, cyber-bullying, augmented and virtual reality - parenting our children and protecting their childhood can feel like a 24/7 battle against the Universe. Or the metaverse.

Our children have never been more vulnerable or anxious.

So drop in and meet us, Mama-G, Esme and baby.

If you haven't already - subscribe to my 'Mama-G and Web 3.0. On Digital Parenting' You-tube channel for free.

And having seen the value this can add, you will may access much more in my private Digital Trespassers Community.

We all need ready access to the best thinking (each other's breakthrough stories, insights and strategies) so we can make the most of the brief time we have to prepare our kids' resilience. No longer can we pop round to the physical doorstep of a local bully to tackle his or her parent head-on. The threats are far more subtle and diverse. We need to be sharper than ever at spotting dangers. Yes we still can and must instil values, guide behavior, and captivate the hearts of children; equipping them for fruitful and characterful lives.

Let's thrash these things out together. Before an epidemic of distraction, precocious exposure and a famine for true integrity and faith robs the next generation of power to make good choices.