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By Help Kids Understand Consequences of Online Actions
Help Kids Understand Consequences of Online Actions
It can be a challenge to talk with your kids about the content they post online — especially if you don't feel like a computer-savvy parent or teacher. However, a new document from Justin W. Patchin and Sameer Hind...
Youth online risk: Accurate reporting
Youth online risk: Accurate reporting
It’s always refreshing to see solid reporting where online kids and parenting are concerned! The main takeaway from this ...
By Back to School Lessons for Parents
Getting Schooled in Back to School
It never fails. Every year when school starts, I find that parents are the ones learning a new lesson. For me, it was the moment my son came home from his first day of middle school with a unique assignment: to log into the school's onli...
OSTWG report: Why a ‘living Internet’?
“Youth Safety on a Living Internet,” the title of the just-released report of the Online Safety ...
Tips for Protecting Personal Privacy Online
It's a culture of sharing
Our kids live in a culture of sharing that has forever changed the concept of privacy. In a world where everyone is connected and anything created can get copied, pasted, and sent to thousands of people in a heartbeat, privacy starts to mean s...
How to Set Parental Controls on the iPhone
Getting Started
Kids love iPhones. And with more than 1,000 downloadable apps for kids in the iPhone store, you can find something to suit every age and interest. But there are also lots of apps with racy content geared just for adults that you don't want your kids stumblin...
Read MoreGet Togetherville: Social networking for kids 6-10
It’s no secret to many parents of 5th- and 6th-graders that a whole lot of kids under 13 are using social network sites, where the minimum age is 13. The two main reasons, I suspect, are that 1) social networking has become pretty much a fact of life for a lot of their peers, and they don’t w...
Read More3 Rules of Facebook Privacy
Help Your Teens Control Their Privacy
In this constantly changing, 24/7 digital world, there are three things parents can count on: 1. Technology evolves quickly; 2. Your kids will find out everything before you do; 3. You can have a huge, ...