Category: Safety
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How to set time limits on an iPad
Worried about your kids spending too much time on iPads? I haven’t found the perfect solution for setting time limits on an iPad yet. I was hoping for an app, that as soon as my 7-year old picked it up and started playing a timer would start and lock her out after a set period…
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Technology is not making our kids stupid!
Myths About Teenagers and Tech that Parents should ignore On the weekend I read an article by Elizabeth Pearle, the Senior Editor of HuffPost Teen called 5 Myths that Parents should ignore about Teens and Technology. She challenges the myths that technology is making our kids thick, anti-social and causing them to have attention spans…
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Top Tips for protecting your child from pornographic content
Do you know how to keep your kids safer online? I first met Tony Anscombe a few months ago at a ‘Child Internet Safety’ round-table discussion and how parents felt about tackling it. The general consensus was that parents are aware of some of the dangers of the internet, many of them are willing and…
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How to Keep Younger Children Safer When Using Computers
Featured Post More than a third of all 3-4 year-olds are now accessing the internet in their homes. My daughter has been accessing computers since she was two, and swipe technology has made this possible. She whizzes around the iPhone and iPad better than her father does and can often be seen on my lap…
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Don’t tell your mum….
On the face of it this is a pretty harmless statement. My husband often says this to our daughter when he’s taken her for a cheeky McDonalds, given her ice-cream before dinner or sloped off for a sneaky pint at the pub. I’ve also been know to say ‘don’t tell your father’ if I’ve bought…