For years, we’ve been telling parents about content on Instagram. We even coined a phrase, Instaporn, to characterize the sexualized content that seemed to be invading a once, pure photo app. Our recent testing confirms that although Instagram has clear Community Guidelines, they aren’t enforcing them. […]
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Another Field Trip with a School Bus Full of Smartphones Updated March 10, 2021 I remember my seventh grade daughter boarding the school bus for a field trip with her classmates to an amusement park. As they departed, I wondered how many kids had smartphones, and
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Is the Lipsi App Safe? A complete app review for awesome parents. We do not believe the Lipsi app is safe for students to use. Lipsi is one of many anonymous apps that is popular with certain teens (similar to YOLO or Profoundly). The terms of
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The Protect Young Eyes team is confused. Our speaking team has over six decades working with families in various teaching and ministry roles. None of us has ever met a parent who flat-out didn’t care about the safety of their children. Not one. We’ve met parents
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Here’s a common objection among parents: “But, if I talk to my son about pornography, I’m afraid it will make him curious about it.” But, is it true? Is it better to wait until kids are older, maybe in middle school, to talk to them about
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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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**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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