Category: Tips

Things To Do While Grounded From Your Phone

So, your parents took away your phone? It can be a tough time in a teen’s life. How are you going to keep up with your friends without your phone?? Besides that, you are going to be SO …

App Reviews For Parents: YouTube Kids

YouTube is a great place for kids to learn new things and find things that are just entertaining in general. Kids these days can spend hours on YouTube, often watching things that we parents just don’t understand the appeal …

Best way to filter and monitor YouTube now!

Here’s a step by step guide on how to apply our recommended YouTube monitoring approach with Boomerang Parental Control on Android child devices. Requirements Child device must be Android. Parent device can be Android or iOS. Latest YouTube …

Practice What You Preach: Rules Parents Should Fol...

As parents, we set many rules for our children that we would never do ourselves. Sometimes we set rules for our kids that we don’t follow ourselves. Typically the reason is that our kids aren’t old enough to …

App Reviews for Parents: Facebook’s Messenge...

Facebook Messenger is one of the most popular messaging platforms available today. A little while ago the company released a new way to allow kids to communicate through the platform without an age restriction or even the requirement …

Saving Photos From All The Devices In Your Family

We are all guilty of taking a ton of pictures with our phones and then never doing anything with them. Many people want one place where all the photos from everyone’s devices can be stored to help create …

Protecting Your Mobile Device From Viruses

We all know that viruses are the WORST! They slow down your internet and your computer and cause a lot of headaches. Most people aren’t aware that your phone, tablet or devices can actually get viruses as well. …

The Apps You Should Always Allow

When you first set up a parental control app like Boomerang, it is hard to know which apps should qualify for “Always Allowed” status, and which apps should be limited. It’s even more difficult to determine if you …

Signs Your Kid Needs a Screen Time Break

We know that in some circumstances screen time can be good, it can also be extremely bad. As your child looks down at their screen, it can become difficult to decipher when they need a break from technology. …

Smartphone Rules for Your Kids

You are finally ready to give your child a smartphone! Congrats! I’m sure you’ve already done your research and figured out exactly which phone you will get them. Now you are ready to hand it over, but not …