I read this recent article about how social media platforms like Instagram do not have any impact on teen mental health via The Verge and it got my blood boiling a bit. Research is not required to see the …
The popular video sharing app TikTok recently added parental controls. TikTok is releasing these features firstly in the UK first and will roll out in other markets soon. I do applaud how several popular social media platforms are adding “parental …
New social media apps are born just about every day. Some of them explode in popularity, while others end up on the discard heap with the other “never was” or out of date applications. It is difficult for …
A while ago my sister came to me desperate to find a way to monitor her teenager’s phone activities. I helped her get something installed and she handed the phones back over to her children. Her daughter immediately …
What is WhatsApp? WhatsApp is an encrypted messaging platform that has now become ubiquitous and is very extremely popular. Facebook purchased WhatApp for an astronomical amount of $19 billion back in 2014 as Mark Zuckerberg saw the vision …
There are many parents who refuse to get their children a smartphone. They think there are so many dangers lurking on the other side of the phone, that it is not worth the danger. The other side of …
We are introducing the world’s first true proactive app blocking feature in Boomerang Parental Control. By blocking newly installed apps proactively and notifying parents to unblock them, we are encouraging a conversation led by parents with their children on the “whys” …
Written by Sarah Kimmel from Family Tech Zone. We live in a social world where we feel compelled to take pictures of our lunch and post them online for all of our friends to see, and comment, and like. …
Written by Sarah Kimmel from Family Tech Zone. During the summer it is easy to become a little lax with the technology and screen time. The kids are complaining that they are bored, you need to get some …
I would like to precede this post by saying that I’m not a parent (yet). I have, however, been witness to parenting and parental worry because I was the first born of three girls. I was not brought up online. When …