by Kate Farina | Dec 17, 2021 | Connect, Social Media
To parents trying to keep up in this tech age, it feels like there is a new social media app on the scene every month. Teens (and more and more, tweens too) love, want and will tell you they NEED social media! Figuring out when to cave to your child’s pleas for a...
by Kate Farina | Mar 31, 2021 | Social Media, Stranger Danger
There’s a new social media kid on the block, but you’ve got to know someone who knows someone, to get into to this party. Clubhouse launched itself (along with COVID!) in March 2020, as an invite-only, audio-based iOS only (at this stage) app. Introducing...
by Kate Farina | Dec 5, 2020 | Social Media
The internet is mostly an amazing place, so our goal as parents, is to help our kids to get the most out of it, and to do so safely. We bring our kids up, telling them it’s good to share, but online it’s very different – we have to teach them to...
by Kate Farina | Nov 25, 2020 | Social Media, Uncategorized
Being able to send messages and talk to other people online is an important part of modern life. With so much being “said” online instead of in person these days, it is often hard to know what someone really means when they use certain words or add...
by Kate Farina | Oct 19, 2020 | Social Media
In helping parents get to grips with their “license to parent” their kids’ digital lives, one of the most difficult challenges is how to help our kids understand that all of our actions, whether online or in real life, leave “footprints”...
by Kate Farina | Sep 30, 2020 | Connect, Educate, Screen Time, Settings, Social Media
Autoplay or autoplayed? Ask almost anyone and they will tell you that, for the most part, they make their own choices. In fact, our ability to make decisions about our own lives, is a foundation of what it means to be free. We take pride that each day we make choices...
