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Cath Knibbs
@childrenandtech.bsky.social
Human Behaviour Technologist & Ethicist, Cybertrauma & online harm consultant, author, educator, speaker and child trauma psychotherapist, Nutrigenomics & DNA health. TEDx speaker ..& ex REME Tech

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The last 24 hours 👇
I joined here some time ago and did not post till now. Pottered about (on here) and saw social media humans.
I am amused and bemused by the narrative that this platform is so lovely.
Humans will always human and the ‘social media norms ‘will dissipate on here in due course.

Bets on how long?
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
So last night I popped out for dinner and wouldn’t you know it I bagged myself a little (NATIONAL) award for the work I do on sharing about cyber and online issues to the public.

More to follow after I have calmed down. I am working today so celebrations will have to be at the weekend.
September 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If AI is going to become AGI and rule over us (it obviously being the incoming expert)


What will all of the current human AI experts do for a job when they are superseded?
September 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The last 24 hours 👇
I joined here some time ago and did not post till now. Pottered about (on here) and saw social media humans.
I am amused and bemused by the narrative that this platform is so lovely.
Humans will always human and the ‘social media norms ‘will dissipate on here in due course.

Bets on how long?
September 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Reposted by Cath Knibbs
I highly recommend Tech Smart Parenting. How to Keep Your Kids Happy & Safe Online, by Catherine Knibbs. 💛
It is a warm, down-to-Earth, straight-talking, no-nonsense book on what parents really need to know about the online spaces their children go to.
August 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Sharing here for traction too: Oh holy moly Joe is now taking his new approach to food to the kids. This just popped up on the news here in UK- After watching the video from James Smith about this issue I am getting more and more concerned for the agendas that specific well intended do gooders 1/N
July 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Reposted by Cath Knibbs
Great to see @childrenandtech.bsky.social in the news! Play is indeed a child’s language and many people don’t want to see that for lots of children, 95+% of this play happens in online games.

It’s not ideal but if we don’t meet them where they are, we won’t…

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/j...
The way a child plays is the way they live’: how therapists are using video games to help vulnerable children
Minecraft and other creative games are becoming recognised as powerful means of self-expression and mental health support, including for traumatised Ukrainian refugees
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Giddy pants post. Out in just over a fortnight (time not game)
July 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Reposted by Cath Knibbs
‘We can’t put a lid on certain topics in the hope that they will go away’
Jennifer Gledhill hears about online environments from therapist, researcher and author Catherine Knibbs @childrenandtech.bsky.social
#stopcyberbullyingday
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
‘We can’t put a lid on certain topics in the hope that they will go away’ | BPS
Jennifer Gledhill hears about online environments from therapist, researcher and author Catherine Knibbs.
www.bps.org.uk
June 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Pleased to share with you: the antidote to the fear, hype and lack of direction for parents on keeping children safe online. Includes guidance for neurodiversity, children with trauma or social, emotional or learning difficulties

Head to your local bookseller/online to pre-order for Summer reading!
April 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
My interview from last year
Available in full on YouTube #trauma #cybertrauma #adolescence
March 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Reposted by Cath Knibbs
FUNDED, YOU CRAZY KIDS!

This is the moment you turned our idea into reality.

It seemed impossible. Then everyone who saw it loved it. Now we turn the page, from funding to making.

4 days left to JOIN US and the 1071 other backers to get Ludocene early.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud...
Ludocene: Game Discovery From People You Trust
A dating app that matches you with games rather than people. A deck-builder that profiles your gaming taste.
www.kickstarter.com
March 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
65% OFF Online Harms and Cybertrauma: Legal and Harmful Issues with Children and Young People url:https://www.audiobooks.co.uk/promotions/promotedBook/699539/online-harms-and-cybertrauma-legal-and-harmful-issues-with-children-and-young-people?refId=175022
January 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM

Very “chuffed” to have spoken to Miesha earlier this year (#legend!) and for the episode to air when technology Christmas gifts will be a plenty, or will be used more than other weeks during the year (for lots of reasons and not because parents are “bad”)

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December 27, 2024 at 10:09 AM
How will we enforce the banning of social media for children? Fines for parents or schools that are caught letting children use them? Will we criminally charge social media platforms, or parents themselves? What happens when a child gets hold of an older sibling's device?
December 24, 2024 at 8:20 AM
Another short

For longer form head to my IG and TT accounts. For training head to YouTube and for more info use the linktree in my bio
December 3, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Why does no one serve up mushroom vol-au-vents anymore? Haven’t seen them at parties for yonks
November 20, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Banning doesn’t/wont work

I’ll be sharing my shorts here till Bluesky allows for my IG/TT full vids (3 mins rather than 1) ..until they can be uploaded here

Starting with the topic of “smartphone bans”
November 20, 2024 at 11:33 AM
I joined here some time ago and did not post till now. Pottered about (on here) and saw social media humans.
I am amused and bemused by the narrative that this platform is so lovely.
Humans will always human and the ‘social media norms ‘will dissipate on here in due course.

Bets on how long?
November 20, 2024 at 7:47 AM

Monthly newsletter. November addresses the noise behind the social media and phones “bans”

Will they really work?

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Insights into Technology, Trauma, and Human Behaviour
Hope you're all doing well. What's new in my LinkedIn Newsletter? My thoughts on specific topics that may or may not have made it into some of my books.
www.linkedin.com
November 19, 2024 at 11:30 AM
First post.

Not an innuendo.

Good to see I’m off to a good start. Welcome.

Tomorrow brings the sensible stuff. Of sorts.
November 12, 2024 at 8:53 PM