Keeping Virtual Play Dates, Hang Outs, and Video Chats Safe for Everyone
Every day we discover (or stumble over) new ways of coping and connecting during this unique chapter in family life. Still, as every age group under your roof finds their favorite virtual play date and hangout apps, parents may need to add a few safety rails to make sure the ...
TikTok Challenge, Hoop App, and Other Headlines You May Have Missed
Digital news that affects families seems to be dominating the headlines these days. To keep parents in the know, here are some of the stories you may want to give extra family discussion time to this week. Skull Breaker Challenge Proving Unfunny Apps — video apps especially — can help ...
Want Your Kids to Care More About Online Safety? Try These 7 Tips
The topics parents need to discuss with kids today can be tough compared to even a few years ago. The digital scams are getting more sophisticated and the social culture poses new, more inherent risks. Weekly, we have to breach very adult conversations with our kids. Significant conversations about sexting, ...
How to Help Kids Steer Clear of Digital Drama this School Year
Editor’s note: This is Part II of helping kids manage digital risks this new school year. Read Part I. The first few weeks back to school can be some of the most exciting yet turbulent times of the year for middle and high schoolers. So as brains and smartphones shift ...
YOLO: What Parents Need to Know About the Anonymity App Kids Use with Snapchat
If your kids use Snapchat, chances are they also use the popular new app YOLO along with it. Since it’s debut in May YOLO has been downloaded over 5 million times, and kids absolutely love it. Whether or not parents love it, however, remains to be seen. But before rendering ...
5 Digital Risks to Help Your Teen Navigate this Summer
S’mores. Sparklers. Snow cones. Sunburns. Fireflies. Remember when summer was simple? Before smartphones and social networks, there was less uploading and more unwinding; less commenting and more savoring. There’s a new summer now. It’s the social summer, and tweens and teens know it well. It’s those few months away from ...
Social Underground: Kids Using Google Docs as New Digital Hangout
Over the years kids have succeeded in staying one step ahead of parents on the digital front. Remember the golden days of social? Teens owned Facebook until every parent, auntie, and grandparent on the planet showed up. So, teens migrated to Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat hoping to carve out a ...
5 Reasons Why Strong Digital Parenting Matters More than Ever
As a parent raising kids in a digital culture, it’s easy to feel at times as if you have a tiger by the tail and that technology is leading your family rather than the other way around. But that familiar feeling — the feeling of being overwhelmed, outsmarted, and always ...
Snapstreaks: Why Kids Keep them Going and What Parents Need to Know
People who use the popular social networking app Snapchat, understand what happens after three consecutive days of messaging the same person. A little flame automatically shows up next to that person’s name signaling that a Snapstreak is officially on. And, keeping that streak alive, is a bigger deal than you ...
Tech Talk: Ways to Help Your Child Conquer Back-To-School Fears
The first-day-of-school jitters nearly did me in as a kid. Our military family moved ten times, so I got used to the stomach aches and stares that came with every new school. I can’t imagine making those big moves as a kid in today’s digital culture. The cliques are far more ...
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