With schools closed down and families confined to their homes except for essential business, a lot of people are bored. It’s not just children and teenagers who are looking for distraction and entertainment online, but children and teenagers are potentially more at risk of ending up in a bad situation because of their online activities. While parents may be relying on apps and the internet to connect their children with their schools, their friends, and […]
Yearly Archives: 2020
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Discord is an app that allows users to set up their own servers where they can chat with their friends or with others who share their interests. The site is most popular with online gamers, but there are also a number of other types of interests represented among Discord’s many servers. There are servers set up to function as online book clubs, fan groups for television shows or podcasts, and science discussions, to name a […]
According to a 2019 survey, over half of the children in the United States have a smartphone by the age of eleven, and 84% of teenagers have their own smartphones. That means that when parents are thinking about how to monitor their children’s internet use and communication, they need to think in terms of mobile devices, not just computers and laptops. And it’s not just internet communications that can be a concern, it’s SMS text […]
Monitoring your child’s internet and smartphone use can be an important part of keeping them safe. Parental monitoring can be the best way to find out if your teen is engaging in risky behavior, being bullied, or dealing with peer pressure. But no parent has the time to monitor everything their teen does on the internet every single day. What’s more, most parents don’t want to. As your children get older, you’ll want to be able to […]
Parents often worry about the kinds of people their children may meet online, and for good reason. For a long time, parents have warned their children to avoid talking to strangers, but internet culture has made it much more commonplace and acceptable to get to know a stranger intimately before ever meeting them in person. It’s not unusual for people of all ages to make these kinds of connections and to be fair, sometimes they […]
At this point in technology history, most members of the younger generation are true digital natives. They’ve had access to computers, tablets, and smartphones since they were old enough to hold the devices or operate a keyboard and a mouse. Parents have genuine concerns about certain dangers that their children may face online, but they may not be concerned about their teenagers falling for online scams. It’s easy for them to assume that their children […]
Teenagers have always had their own takes on language. It’s not at all unusual for adults to be confused by the slang that the younger generation uses, and this can sometimes lead to humorous misunderstandings. However, in other cases, adults who don’t quite understand what the kids today are saying when they speak miss out on clues that could alert them that a teen is in trouble. And teens know this – it’s common for […]
Chromebooks have only gained in popularity in recent years. When the first Chromebooks appeared on the market nearly a decade ago, many predicted that they would flop in the marketplace. The initial concept of the Chromebook seemed to focus on stripping down the features that most other operating systems relied on, and that created an operating system with limited capacities that was frustrating for many early users. But as the capabilities of the cloud expanded […]
For 18 years, parents have the responsibility of taking care of their children. Through infancy and toddler years, middle school and high school, parents watch their students grow into healthy adults. After high school, many children choose to move out of the house or attend college. Although your child is now living on their own, there are still ways that you can ensure that they remain safe and secure as they learn to take care […]
Most of the popular social media networks require that users be at least 13 to join. That means that once your child reaches adolescence, there isn’t much to stop them from signing up to spend their time on one of the many social media networks available. As a parent, of course, you can make your own rules regarding when your child will be allowed to use social media, but many parents find that it’s difficult […]
Parents know that they need to be cautious about their children’s internet usage. The internet is changing all the time, so it can be tough to keep up, but for the most part, parents know that they need to monitor how their children interact on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, what types of things they share on message boards, and what kinds of apps they download to their phones and other mobile devices. […]