by Josh Ramsey | Mar 10, 2023 | Pornography & Violence, Social Media, Stranger Danger
Sextortion of our tweens and teens (especially our boys) is just escalating! Why? Because social media makes it so easy, and parents generally have no clue that it’s even happening! Hormonal teen brains defy logic and boys especially are falling for this scam far more...
by Josh Ramsey | Feb 21, 2023 | Screen Time, Social Media, Technology
Since it’s launch, ChatGPT has got the world, well, chatting! What is it exactly? In its most basic version, ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) accesses resources on the internet that are open to the public in order to provide an answer to a...
by Josh Ramsey | Feb 21, 2023 | Filters & Limits, Screen Time, Settings, Social Media, Stranger Danger
Parenting these days is a busy job, often requiring lots of juggling of overlapping schedules! Knowing where your kids are and where they should (or shouldn’t!) be, is more than peace of mind for many parents – it’s a safety issue. In today’s online and offline...
by Kate Farina | Dec 17, 2021 | 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...
