Young kids, even toddlers, using mobile phone and tablet apps is considered by many to be fairly normal in today’s society. Developing apps for kids is becoming big business, and is definitely (if you’ll pardon the pun) a growth industry. Apps are often tied in with popular TV shows and […]
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You’re a good parent and you’re keen to learn about the latest and greatest mobile apps, software, Internet services and online communication tools so you can keep your kids safe and secure without being seen as over-protective or overbearing. Yet you keep reading things in the mainstream media about phone […]
Welcome to this week’s roundup of family-related technology news. It feels very much like a ‘for-against’ week. Some stories highlighting some of the negative aspects when tech is badly or excessively used, while others reveal the positive benefits of tech for children’s education and development. Jump to a story using […]
Welcome to this week’s roundup of family-related technology news. This week we look at articles about the threat of child exploitation via social media and messaging apps, the problem of parents oversharing details about their kids, how to be a balanced tech role model, and the effect of affluence on […]
We are proud to announce that we’ve just launched Developing an Online Safety for Adopted Children, a free online resource for current and prospective adoptive parents. It looks at the increasingly challenging world of the Internet, online communication and social media, and how to keep ‘forever families’ as safe as […]
While it’s true that Internet fear goes rather over the top at times, there are a number of services that could be disasters waiting to happen. Though parents try to educate their children about Internet safety, then try to keep an eye on what they’re doing — all while their […]
Stop Internet Predators has announced its new Spanish website, designed to raise awareness of the new Internet technologies that can pose a threat to children. October is both National Hispanic Heritage Month and Cyber Security Awareness Month, so it’s a fitting time to launch the resource. Many of the fifteen […]