When it comes to parental controls, I generally recommend that parents take advantage of the parental control features that come with a device and then add additional controls as needed (as long as the two together are not in conflict with each other). Manufacturers of mobile devices have continued to improve the features and options that can help you protect and manage the access your kids have to content and purchases. In addition to the restrictions settings that come with …
Apps
The following is a list of apps that parents might not want their kids using. The list is here so parents can recognize them, read about them and decide what is right for their family. Click …
The other evening as I scrolled through my personal Facebook feed, I noticed that several of my Facebook friends had attended a wedding that evening. As is often the case with Facebook, it occurred to me …
It has always been important for kids to know that their self-worth has nothing to do with the approval of others. However, the Youtube and social media culture today make it even more critical to healthy …
Fight The New Drug, an organization that does awesome work to minimize pornography use, reported the other day that search results for Pokémon GO had surpassed that of porn searches. In case you weren’t aware of it, pornography …
Flexibility, choice, freedom, variety – they are part of the appeal of android devices. And yet, it is those same characteristics that make it trickier to give instructions and advice to parents for protecting kids’ on …
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation has included the Snapchat app in this year’s Dirty Dozen list, and rightly so. They also have an outstanding page (also below) detailing the dangers and concerns with Snapchat that cause it …
NetSanity, a provider of parental control products for Apple devices, has a great post today (linked below). In it NetSanity alerts parents to hiding apps and practical ways to manage and monitor the apps their kids are …
Naked Security Post detailing 7 apps that #ParentsNeedToKnow about. Protect your teens: 7 apps and websites parents should be aware of | Naked Security. Check out our App Watch information for more. …
Online privacy is at the forefront of tech news and tops the list for concerns for a lot of internet users or at least it should. The folks behind the app Cyber Dust saw a need and filled …