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 [...]
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 [...]
You don’t hear it a lot, but – based on a new survey from the Family Online Safety Institute – parents sound pretty savvy about their kids’ Net use and tech aids for keeping it constructive. The survey of 702 parents of kids 8-17 found that 93% have set rules or limits to monitor their [...]
Monitoring revisited with some new products that illustrate how this “parental controls” category is segmenting.
GetParentalControls.org, which tests Web filters, announced its top picks and some filtering trends.
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.
A new tech-parenting survey by BlogHer and Parenting magazine found worry’s a constant, fears are down, and use of parental controls higher than thought.
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