App Safety Challenge! 7-Day Step by Step Guide to Preview Apps for Your Kids
Before giving kids access to any app, parents should download it, use it, and explore every nook and cranny for seven straight days. In this post we’ll show you step by step what that might look like so that you can thoroughly vet any apps your kids are wanting to download.Why 7 days?
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Thinking about being a holiday hero by getting your teen or tween a smartphone? Most teens want one, but a smartphone can be a big risk–opening them up to pornography, sexting, cyberbullying, and online predators. Before buying that Black Friday deal, consider if your child is ready and how the main competitors stack up on safety.Reality Check: Does Your Child Need a Phone?
… Read More Read moreParent Alert! Schools Offer Erotic Lit to 5 Year Olds through Library Apps! 5 Ways to Protect Your Kids
Nearly every school-issued device comes with a library app, which seems like a safe and reasonable choice for educational devices. But one parent alerted us that her kids had EASY access to erotic lit on iPads and Chromebooks issued to kids ages 5-11! We checked it out ourselves and found it on every device we checked.Erotic lit on school-issued devices
One of our parent readers made this discovery and tipped us off to the problem.… Read More Read more
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Led by Kristen A. Jenson, author of the best-selling children’s book Good Pictures Bad Pictures, Protect Young Minds™ (PYM) seeks to help parents “porn-proof” their kids before they come across highly addictive and easily accessible internet pornography.