As a follow up to our previous post It takes a layered approach for parental controls, here are additional common tools parents can use with their kids’ technology and a few rules to apply in your family. A …
Monitoring child mobile devices is an important step in parenting today and how our kids communicate is quite different than how we did growing up (remember the one corded telephone in the middle of the living room where anyone …
We are BACK! Boomerang Parental Control is back on the App Store. Apple made changes to their App Store Review guidelines at their annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) back in June 2019 which reversed their decision to ban …
Instant Apps – so what are they? Google Play Instant Apps are also referred to as Native Android apps, without the installation by Google. Instant Apps are a good way to try an app without installing them but bad for parents …
Apps vs. Routers or Apps and Routers? It takes a layered approach. Parents have more parental control tools at their disposable to monitor their kids mobile technologies than ever before. From apps to routers to active conversations in …
Boomerang Parental Control gives parents the most flexible screen time options for Android devices. As parents are getting ready for back to school, sport activities and a routine that usually gets undone during the summer months, one subject …
Case Study A year ago, Will Burger, MathU Teaching Emporium CEO and Founder reached out to our team. He shared that Boomerang Parental Control was being used successfully in a pilot program at a local school in South …
On Samsung child device, Android’s Guest Mode can be controlled by Boomerang Parental Control. Samsung Android devices have additional controls which we include for free with our popular features – such as enforcing the GPS from being turned off, disabling Multi-Window …
Our Boomerang Parental Control team joined the effort of our competitors in writing the Screen Time API — detailing our collective issue with Apple’s 2018 rejection of apps using MDM (Mobile Device Management) for third party parental controls …
Time for the May update from Boomerang For Parents. Last year we started a project named “What’s in it for the Kids?”, bringing more kid-friendly features to our App. Kids were able to request more time and see …