Is my kid ready for social media? At Protect Young Eyes, we speak to a group of parents almost every week. Inevitably, during the Q&A section of the talk, a parent will ask a question about when is the right age to give a child their […]
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Parents Have a Love/Hate Relationship with YouTube I speak to a group of parents almost once a week and I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t asked about YouTube. It’s one of the most difficult online experiences for parents to control. YouTube (owned by Google)
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Happy Birthday, Daughter! Tonight I stand on the verge of my daughter’s twelfth birthday, in complete denial that this day has arrived. As a parent, we often slog through long days, but short years and the past 12 years have swept by oh so quickly. Can you
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(Updated January 12, 2024) Recently, I presented to a group of parents at a charter school about our digital culture. At the end of my talk, a father named Anthony asked me, “Chris, my 5-year-old likes to use our tablet. What should I say to him
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**Jump to the section showing parents how to find Finsta accounts. Finsta and Spam Accounts Aren’t New In August 2016, The National Cybersecurity Alliance in cooperation with Microsoft released the results of their study of online safety attitudes and behaviors of parents and teens. Researchers interviewed
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You might wonder why a tech guy would ever try to write about masturbation. This one word causes awkward squirming and lack of eye-contact like no other. No one wants to talk about it. Parents want to ignore it. But here’s an uncomfortable reality –tweens and
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I remember the shiny, blue Huffy bike that my dad taught me how to ride. We didn’t have “balance bikes” back when I was a kid. Instead, we used training wheels in order to get our balance right. Over time, dad raised the training wheels a
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I never intended to tell people about my pornography issues. It was something I hid and wanted to keep as quiet as possible. Then, it just kind of slipped out. Last year I was talking to a group of parents at a local school about the