At the beginning of the new year, everyone is excited about getting organized, setting goals, and creating new habits in their life to make it better. Some of these goals might be to spend less time on technology. Other …
During the summer there is a tendency for children to lose some of the education they have gained throughout the school year. In order to combat this “summer slide,” there are plenty of educational apps that can also …
Unless your teenagers have been living under a rock, they might be playing, or want to play a game called Fortnite. Previously this game has only been available to play on a PC or Gaming console, but it …
We talk a lot about how important parental controls are to put in place for your children, but often parents can have a technology addiction as well. Sometimes parents are even worse than their children! Learning to rein …
Customer Stories: From Sprint WeGo smartphones to Boomerang Dad: Thomas Our story starts with Sprint WeGo phones. Most households that my (11)(12)(14) daughters babysit for do not have home phones. Sprint had these fantastic little phones that were single button …
Customer Stories: It was this, or a hammer Mom: Jennifer It was this, or a hammer. That’s what I told myself when I downloaded Boomerang and the SPIN browser last night. Over the last three years, my twin teenaged boys …
We have our very popular Always Allowed app list feature where parents can choose apps they feel are of high quality for screen time use. Once on this list, these apps do not count down the child’s daily usage limit. Typically we see parents …
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” …
Kids have been hiding things from their parents since the beginning of time. With the changes in technology, however, it has gotten a whole lot easier than stuffing magazines under their mattress. The good news for parents is …
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. …