NetFamilyNews.orgA lot of unusually thoughtful points about parenting in our collective, global social media environment are made in this recent New York Times article: “Cyberparenting and the Risk of T.M.I.” Pamela Paul writes that, for this generation of teens, it’s not Big Brother so much as Big Mother and/or Big Father. “Yes, we know contemporary [...]
A new study indicates that a lot of parents who monitor their kids online and on phones do so without their children knowing it. The study – “The Online Generation Gap,” just released by the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) – found that 70% of parents check the text messages on their teens’ phones, while [...]
With tablets showing up on more and more kids’ holiday wish lists (littler and littler kids!), parents will appreciate any help they can get with keep tablet use safe as well as fun. And there’s help over at TechHive, which reports that Amazon Kindle Fire HD, Barnes & Noble Nook HD, and Apple’s iPad, all [...]
Reflecting on a cellphone app developer’s claim, I’m thinking that tracking our kids’ movements, moment by moment, isn’t the best way to enhance “family awareness.” Those are the words of Chris Hull, CEO of the company that developed the Life360 tracking app, in an interview for Time. Is that “awareness” as in “surveillance”? Oddly, Time [...]
GetParentalControls.org, which tests Web filters, announced its top picks and some filtering trends.
More and more parents are taking away the cellphone, laptop, or Xbox as a disciplinary measure, and sometimes it even works!
Safety Toolbar and SafeSocial are great because they promote parent-child communication.
A dad writes about his experiences with a smart kid’s workaround, parenting gamers, and Xbox parental controls present and future.
Free PC security help for the first 1,000 families who sign up, but there are more long-term solutions too.
It’s something to think about – no filtering or other “parental control” tools for a wi-fi-enabled device that can go anywhere a kid can go. I’m referring to the iPad at the moment (because it’s so new, there’s no such software available for it), but the wi-fi-enabled mobility part is true of most phones that [...]
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