Parent Speaker Series

Tech, Covid and Kids

Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Time: 7:00pm to 8:00pm

Cost: FREE (Please register through our Facebook group event)

Web Conference details available early March.

Children, teens and adults all turn to screens more than ever before. Given technology’s links to problems like anxiety, addiction, and cyberbullying; parents & teachers must now reset children’s tech habits towards learning, connection, self-care & adaptability.

Join psychiatrist, best-selling author, and mom of three, Dr. Shimi Kang MD for an interactive webinar where you will learn:

  • How technology is impacting children’s brain, body, and behaviour

  • How to differentiate between healthy, stressful, & addictive tech experiences.

  • Guidelines on how to maintain healthy tech habits in your school/ home during the pandemic & beyond including free downloadable reset resources.

About Dr Shimi Kang

An award-winning Harvard trained medical doctor, researcher, and expert on the neuroscience of innovation, leadership, and motivation, Dr. Shimi Kang provides science-based solutions for health, happiness, and achievement in the workplace, classroom, and at home. With 20 years of clinical experience and extensive research in the science that lies behind optimizing human intelligence, Dr. Kang provides practical tools to cultivate the key 21st century skills of resilience, connection, creativity, and more.

She is the author of the #1 bestseller The Dolphin Parent and newly released book, The Tech Solution, She is a Clinical Associate Professor at UBC, the founder of Dolphin Kids: Future-Ready Leaders, CEO of Spark Mindset App, and host of the YouTube show, Mental Wealth with Dr. Shimi Kang.

Sponsor Schools

This speaker event is co-sponsored by 10 schools across the Vancouver School District. The Nightingale PAC is proud to work with the following schools:

  • David Livingston

  • Florence Nightingale

  • General Gordon

  • Lord Tennyson

  • Maple Grove

  • Simon Fraser

  • Southlands

  • Trafalgar

  • Tyee

  • Van Horne


Donation to Dolphin Kids


Dr Shimi Kang will donate the proceeds from this event to Dolphin Kids - in support of bursaries for the Future-ready Leaders Fund and the training of mentors for the Dolphin Kids' free Kids Helping Kids Programs.


Dolphin Kids: Future-ready Leaders provides social, emotional, and cognitive learning programs for children, youth, educators, and parents. Our goal is to provide mental health education and life skills development through school-based programs, camps, online classes, parent seminars, and professional development presentations. Our Future-ready Leaders Fund provides financial assistance for families in need, so all children and youth have access to our social, emotional, and cognitive learning programs. It also supports the training of mentors for our free Kids Helping Kids Programs.


The generous PAC funds raised will contribute to this fund and the families in our local community. We truly appreciate your support of our mission to raise smart, happy, strong kids!