The Bark parental control app helps parents monitor and manage their child’s online activity. Bark’s focus is for keeping them safe from online threats such as inappropriate content, online predators and cyberbullying. While most parental control applications are designed with these protections in mind, they are all a little different in how they do it and what devices and operating systems they are best used for. In our effort to empower parents with the tools they need to protect their …
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As of this writing, Microsoft Family Safety, doesn’t offer much for iOS devices, but Microsoft still has a lot to offer families. Many, many households have a mix of device platforms. If your family has any …
On May 8th Net Nanny® rebranded their Zift mobile protection application to Net Nanny® 10. That was probably a good branding decision since Net Nanny® has been a leader in this space for years and the …
The router is the part of the home network that all other devices go through to connect to the internet. Typically it is connected to either a cable modem or DSL modem connected to your internet …
Parents need to understand that when we put technology into our kids’ hands we also need to accept responsibility for protecting them and that there might be costs associated with that. However, some of the best …
Sensible Cyber Parenting always recommends starting home online protection with the router as the best practice, first-line defense. (see Router-based parental controls post and our Getting Started page) Sadly, however it is impossible to use OpenDNS (or other …
October 2018: The post below was from June of 2016. Mobicip has recently produced a more comprehensive parental control product which I am in the process of evaluating and I will update the SCP Mobicip information …
Netgear was one of the first router manufacturers to incorporate parental controls into their routers. Some of these attempts have been more successful than others, but I applaud their efforts and commitment to keep families safe. …
The management and control that has been available for corporate networks for years is finally available to families in a simple and user-friendly product called Circle. Computer geeks with really deep pockets could subscribe to products …
In the Mac versus PC world, many companies develop products for both systems. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn’t. Intego is a Mac-based company, so if your family has all Mac computers then it might be the …
YouTube has been one of the most challenging areas for parents who are concerned with the content their kids see online. On one hand, there are thousands of worthwhile, funny and educational videos on YouTube. On …