by admin | Jul 1, 2020 | bullying, healthy habits, online safety, parenting, screen time, social media
New Zealand government is knocking it out of the park with educational (hilarious) videos for parents about how to keep kids safe online. Parents need to hear this information and share it with their kids. Not just once, but again and again as they get older and have...
by admin | Jun 24, 2020 | online safety, screen time, social media
How do you teach your kids about appropriate behavior online? One way is to require that for any account they set up, you get to follow or friend them, so you’ll have a baseline of what they’re doing, who they’re following and what they’re...
by admin | Feb 5, 2020 | intentional screens, offline activities, online safety, parenting, screen time, social media
February 11th is Safer Internet Day. Parents, if you could wave a magic wand, how would you change the internet to keep your kids safe online? What would you wish for? Here are my thoughts. Cyber safety for kids is based in love All that I do, I do because I love my...
by admin | Jan 29, 2020 | social media
Facebook is stalking you…even when your phone is off You’ve wondered about Facebook privacy, right? Just how much information is Facebook collecting about you? (If you haven’t, I need you to know this. Although Facebook is “free”,...
by admin | Jan 22, 2020 | gaming, good tech, intentional screens, mental health, parenting, screen time, social media
You’ve said “yes” to your child getting an app or game and now you regret it. Or maybe technology just started to ooze into every minute of the day and you need to reset your family’s usage. How do you change the rules on screen time? Here are...
by admin | Nov 27, 2019 | online safety, parenting, social media
Instagram is making some changes in their quest to become a safer place on the internet… before regulators force them to address the issue. They are requiring users to provide their birth date, in the hopes of making the platform safer for younger users,...
by admin | Oct 2, 2019 | bullying, middle school, online safety, parenting, screen time, social media
? Read this if you are a parent with kids who use social media and you feel like you have no idea what they are seeing, or saying or being exposed to… ? In the last year I’ve heard so many stories of online crisis. Exposure to pornography on the bus....
by admin | Sep 12, 2019 | middle school, parenting, social media
I recently read a great article in Psychology Today. Here’s my favorite line: “Strange things seem to happen to a tween’s brain the first day they walk into middle school.” One might sum up a middle schooler’s main goals in life this way:...
