online safety for kids
How to Talk to Your Kid About What Happened Online This School Year So Far
A few weeks into the school year, your kid has a new group chat, a new app you’ve never heard of, and a friend drama subplot you’re only getting in fragments. Maybe there was a phone confiscated in class, a screenshot passed around, or a “can I show you something weird” moment that got dropped […]
Setting Up a Family Media Agreement for the New School Year
The backpack is new, the shoes still smell like the store, and somewhere in the first week the phone question comes up again. Can I bring it to school. Can I have it at dinner. Why does my sibling get more time than I do. If your house doesn’t have clear answers to these by […]
How Predators Use Shared Interests to Build Trust With Kids Online
A kid who loves a niche video game, a specific anime, or a particular horse breed can go years without meeting another person who cares about it as much as they do. Then, online, they suddenly find someone who does. Same favorite characters. Same obscure jokes. Same enthusiasm, at the same intensity, right when the […]
What Data School Apps Collect About Your Child, and How to Limit It
Somewhere between the class portal, the homework app, the lunch account, and the reading program that hands out digital badges, your child now has accounts on more platforms than most adults juggle for work. Each one asked for a name, a birthdate, maybe a photo. Each one is, right now, storing that information somewhere you’ll […]