As a parent, it’s normal to wonder about how to set online rules for kids. Each family has their own set of rules regarding chores, bedtimes, curfews and other common household concerns. As we point out in Parenting High-Tech Kids: The Ultimate Internet, Web, and Online Safety Guide [...]
Keeping your kids safe online involves many moving parts, one of which is monitoring what they’re doing. The internet is a vast place where kids need to know boundaries, rules and precautions—just like in the real world, as we note in recent bestseller Parenting High-Tech Kids: The Ultimate [...]
Perhaps the most valuable piece of currency on the Internet today is personal information. Just as in real life, it needs to be zealously guarded and protected from falling into the wrong hands, as we point out in Parenting High-Tech Kids: The Ultimate Internet, Web, and Online Safety [...]
Why do we make young children sit in car seats, or require bike riders to wear helmets? It’s not that we are expecting to get in a crash or hoping that they fall off their bike, but rather that we as parents need to do everything we can [...]
Along with exponential improvements in communications and connectivity, the rise of cell phones has also unwittingly ushered in a great rise in sexting, the transmission of sexually explicit pictures or messages via cellphones, e-mail or social networking sites – especially via text or instant message. Although sexting has [...]
Unwanted e-mail is known as spam, and these days, we’re all being forced to wade through a lot of it. As we found out while researching Parenting High-Tech Kids: The Ultimate Internet, Web, and Online Safety Guide, experts estimate that around 90% of all e-mail is spam, with [...]
Software piracy and illegal downloads and a rapidly-growing problem, as we point out in Parenting High-Tech Kids: The Ultimate Internet, Web, and Online Safety Guide. Pirated content can range from video games and comic books to movies, music, books and more, which are being made available for free [...]
Once upon a time, many kids dreamed of getting their own landline – one they didn’t have to share with other family members, and where they’d worry about someone accidentally interrupting online transmissions by picking up the handset in the middle of them. Today, the decision to let [...]
Families have been celebrating “firsts” since time immemorial, including baby’s first words, a child’s first loose tooth, and little ones getting dropped off for their first day of school. And as explained in our recent bestselling book Parenting High-Tech Kids: The Ultimate Internet, Web, and Online Safety Guide, [...]
You may not realize it, but today’s growingly powerful HDTVs, Ultra HD TVs, 3D TVs and so-called Smart TVs (read: Internet-connected sets) can also provide kids with extensive ways to connect online. And as every parent knows, more connectivity means more safety concerns, as discussed in our recent [...]