When it comes to your kids and the digital world, you shouldn't have to figure this out alone.

I'm Katey McPherson. I help families navigate what's happening now, and get ready for what's coming.

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Real World Ready Kids

Digitally fluent. Real-world fragile.

We've spent a decade teaching parents to lock down the digital world, and almost none of it teaching kids to handle the real one.

Meet Real World Ready Kids

Katey McPherson presenting to an audience

For schools & districts

Nearly three decades in education. Thousands of parents. One message.

Keynotes, staff training, and parent nights for schools that want more than a scare-tactics assembly.

Bring Katey to your school

Where are you right now?

I need help now

Something is happening.

An image got shared. A message came from someone you don't know. Your kid won't come out of their room and you don't know what you're dealing with.

Start here. There are steps you can take in the next ten minutes.

Get help now

I want to get ahead of this

Nothing's wrong yet, and you'd like to keep it that way.

Your kid is about to get a phone. Or they just did. Or they're eight and you can see it coming.

There's a way to do this that doesn't rely on luck.

Show me how

Nearly three decades in education

TEDx speaker

Former Dean of Students

Esquire · KTAR · 12 News · AZFamily · Wellness Mama

What's a Family Navigator?

It's the job I've been doing for ten years without a name for it.

Parents call me when something has gone wrong online and they don't know who to talk to. Not a therapist yet. Not the police yet. Not the school, because the school is sometimes the problem.

They need someone who knows how this works, who isn't going to panic, and who knows who to call next.

That's the job. Navigator, not expert-on-a-stage.

I know what you're looking at

Nearly three decades in schools. I've seen this before, and I'll tell you plainly how serious it is.

I don't panic

Most of what terrifies parents is survivable. Some of it isn't. You need someone who knows the difference.

I know who to call

Therapists, digital forensics, attorneys, advocates. Vetted, and matched to your situation.

I stay past the crisis

The hard part isn't the emergency. It's the six months after.

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