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Equipped with as little as another party’s mobile phone number, kids can send messages back and forth via text or multimedia message, as we point out in Parenting High-Tech Kids: The Ultimate Internet, Web, and Online Safety Guide. These missives differ from e-mails in that they’re transmitted over [...]
As a parent, it’s normal to wonder about how to set online rules for kids. Each family has their own set of rules regarding chores, bedtimes, curfews and other common household concerns. As we point out in Parenting High-Tech Kids: The Ultimate Internet, Web, and Online Safety Guide [...]
Keeping your kids safe online involves many moving parts, one of which is monitoring what they’re doing. The internet is a vast place where kids need to know boundaries, rules and precautions—just like in the real world, as we note in recent bestseller Parenting High-Tech Kids: The Ultimate [...]
Perhaps the most valuable piece of currency on the Internet today is personal information. Just as in real life, it needs to be zealously guarded and protected from falling into the wrong hands, as we point out in Parenting High-Tech Kids: The Ultimate Internet, Web, and Online Safety [...]
Why do we make young children sit in car seats, or require bike riders to wear helmets? It’s not that we are expecting to get in a crash or hoping that they fall off their bike, but rather that we as parents need to do everything we can [...]
Given the presence of iPhones and laptops galore, parents often want to know when they should let their teens start using social networks or other connected tools. It’s hard to know when teens, ages 13-17, should start doing anything online, let alone using these sometimes confusing and vast [...]
Along with exponential improvements in communications and connectivity, the rise of cell phones has also unwittingly ushered in a great rise in sexting, the transmission of sexually explicit pictures or messages via cellphones, e-mail or social networking sites – especially via text or instant message. Although sexting has [...]
Cybercrime is a broad catch-all term that seeks to encompass nearly every illegal activity in which the Internet or technology is involved. For those who want to know more about cybercrime and how to protect your kids against it (a topic we discuss at length in Parenting High-Tech [...]
Unwanted e-mail is known as spam, and these days, we’re all being forced to wade through a lot of it. As we found out while researching Parenting High-Tech Kids: The Ultimate Internet, Web, and Online Safety Guide, experts estimate that around 90% of all e-mail is spam, with [...]
Software piracy and illegal downloads and a rapidly-growing problem, as we point out in Parenting High-Tech Kids: The Ultimate Internet, Web, and Online Safety Guide. Pirated content can range from video games and comic books to movies, music, books and more, which are being made available for free [...]
