Have you ever received a credit card charge from Google Play or the Apple App Store and you did not know what it was for? It may have come from an in-app purchase that your child made on your account while playing a harmless game, such as Tiny Zoo Friends. What is an In-App Purchase? […]
I recently came across a new, innovative cell phone company – Kajeet. I found it interesting because they claim to have built-in FREE parental controls already installed on the cell phone. According to their website, www.kajeet.com, you can control the following features: Time Manager: This allows you to control when the phone can and can’t be used Find […]
In my search to find the right tools to help us protect our children, I came across uKnow (www.uKnow.com), a parental controls software company based in Virginia. They make several tools to help protect and track your children. I will look into them further in a later blog post, but wanted to inform you quickly about […]
This is directly from Detective Rich Wistocki, Naperville Police Department. PARENT ALERT !!!! Ok parents, here is another new threat to our young children. To tell you the truth, we have had three cases of this in one week. This involved 6-8th graders. In your child’s cell phone we are finding they are hiding sexted […]
Snapchat is a photo messaging application. Using the app, users can take photos (called a snap), record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to a controlled list of recipients. Users set a time limit for how long recipients can view their photos, up to 10 seconds, after which it will be deleted from […]
Do you feel like you have no idea what your children are doing on their smartphones? When I carpool a group middle schoolers, I find that I cannot follow the ‘app speak’ language that they are using. Are they tweeting, snapping, chatting, following, etc? Just when I figure out what app they are talking about […]
I am officially waving the white flag. I surrender. I have finally come to the realization that I cannot keep up with my children’s online activities AND work, do the laundry, get dinner ready, oversee homework, etc. The breadth as well as the depth of online dangers are simply too great for one person to […]