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Tag: teens

Preparing Your Kids to Reject Pornography

Sadly in the current world we live in, it is not a question about if your child will be exposed to pornography, it is when. According to the American Psychological Association “the average age of first exposure to …

How to Prevent Technology Addiction

Addiction is no longer just about drugs. There are many forms of addiction and many things that adults and children can become addicted to. From Diet Coke to prescription medication, and from shopping to leaving the thermostat at a …

Customer Stories: Kids want real smartphones

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

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 …

My kids hate being monitored, but trust us, it’s...

Our parental control app is designed to grow with your family. We firmly believe that our app’s feature set allows you to guide your children and families through the intricacies of online interactions, building good tech habits from …

The Effect of Pornography on the Lives of Adolesce...

It’s a pleasure to have our first guest blog post by Kelsey Boultbee who’s currently studying Communications Studies at Capilano University. She wrote this piece as a summary of some of her recent studies and we felt it was very …

Why my daughter wants a Snapchat account

Children are definitely visual beings and social media apps like Instagram and Snapchat are enabling a world of visual sharing that wasn’t possible even just 4-5 years ago. I previously wrote about why my son wanted an Instagram …

Where and How Teens communicate

Realizing time flies and that we have a 12 year old daughter turning 13 in about a month, it was a timely article I read from PEW Research on the subject of where teens spend their time online. I feel …