The Digital Parent - Leadership

The Digital Parent is a presence‑based, emotionally grounded initiative created to help families navigate the digital age with clarity, confidence, and connection. We believe adults deserve support that is practical, compassionate, and rooted in real‑world experience — not fear, shame, or overwhelm. Our mission is to equip families with the tools, language, and emotional literacy they need to raise grounded, resilient children in a rapidly changing digital world.

We approach this work with a simple philosophy:

When parents feel steady, children feel safe.

Our workshops, trainings, and community sessions are designed to strengthen that steadiness — through understanding, not judgment; through clarity, not chaos; through presence, not pressure.

MEET THE FOUNDERS

Paulette Jones

Owner & Co‑Founder | Lead Technology Educator & Trainer | IET Coordinator, Southern Crescent Technical College | Marketing Strategist | Technical Systems Architect

Paulette is the owner and co‑founder of The Digital Parent Movement — the technical heartbeat of the organization and the architect behind its digital systems, learning experience, and technology‑based training. With a degree in marketing, a natural fluency in digital culture, and her professional role as an IET (Integrated Education & Training) Coordinator at Southern Crescent Technical College, she brings a rare combination of technical expertise, instructional skill, and generational insight.

As an IET Coordinator, Paulette develops, implements, and supervises programs that blend adult basic skills with occupational training and workplace literacy. She designs integrated curricula, recruits and supports learners, builds employer partnerships, and ensures compliance with state and federal data systems. This work places her at the intersection of education, workforce development, and digital competency — a perfect foundation for helping parents navigate the digital world with clarity and confidence.

As our Lead Technology Educator and Trainer, Paulette teaches parents how today’s platforms, apps, and devices actually work — not in abstract terms, but in clear, practical language that makes families feel empowered rather than overwhelmed.

Behind the scenes, Paulette is also the technical wizard who builds and maintains our digital infrastructure. She manages our communications, designs our parent education modules, oversees our digital tools, and ensures that every part of our training is modern, accessible, and user‑friendly.

Her ability to blend technical mastery with emotional clarity is what makes The Digital Parent Movement both grounded and future‑ready.

Thomas Brock

Co‑Founder | Educator | Emotional Architect | Creator of Emotional Geography

Thomas brings more than five decades of service across education, leadership, public safety, and community development. His career spans early childhood education, K–12 teaching, adult education, correctional education, civic leadership, and emergency response. Throughout every chapter, Thomas has centered his work on emotional clarity, human connection, and the wellbeing of families and communities.

He is the creator of Emotional Geography, a framework that helps people understand the emotional patterns, seasons, and inner physics that shape their lives. Ray’s presence‑based teaching style has supported students, parents, and communities through moments of transition, uncertainty, and growth.

Thomas currently teaches Adult Education and ESL preparation at Southern Crescent Technical College and is preparing to bring Emotional Geography to TEDx Atlanta. His work blends emotional literacy, practical wisdom, and grounded leadership — offering families a calm, steady voice in a noisy digital world.

The Digital Parent exists because of my greatest blessings—my children, Tristan, Kameron, and Vernal Jr.

Raising growing, tech-savvy boys has been both eye-opening and deeply affirming. It has reinforced just how essential digital safety, security, and open, ongoing conversations truly are.

And on the days when they are simply being kids—curious, testing boundaries, and trying to see what they can get away with—I am grateful that we have tools in place. Tools that allow us not only to stay informed about their digital activity, but to guide it, set limits, and protect them as they grow.

-Mrs. Jones "The Digital Mom"