Dear Tween with Allison Ochs

kids, family, education, health, fitness, mental · EN

What if your child could sit down with one of the world’s leading online safety experts and ask her anything? No filters. No awkward silences. Just real questions — and the answers every family needs to hear. That’s exactly what Dear Tween is. Every week, social worker and pedagogist Allison Ochs sits down with a real tween for an unscripted, honest conversation about life online. A pedagogist is more than an educator — it is a professional trained in child development, behaviour, and the social and emotional forces that shape how young people grow. Combined with her background as a social worker, Allison brings a rare and powerful lens to one of the most urgent challenges of our time: keeping children safe, confident, and grounded in a digital world that was never designed with them in mind. Allison is the founder of Edit Change Management and a published author whose work has shaped conversations around online safety across the globe. For over a decade, sh