Helping your family have a safer online experience
Yes its nearly the time for the children to go back to school and yes it is a little early to start talking about Xmas but this is no ordinary year or ordinary Xmas. With the pandemic and Brexit we are going to have to be prepared for the festive period. While I would never … Read More “Xmas on the horizon…already!” »
I do love it when so many magazines, newspapers and people publish their “Summer Reading List”. I think they envisage as parents we have all this wonderful spare time to while away during the summer months, I don’t know about you but summer for me as a parent is very busy with the children, all … Read More “Summer Reading List” »
I must admit to being very surprised to be writing a blog with this title. Earlier in the year, at the start of the first lockdown here in the UK my boys (who are 8 and 10) wanted to play Roblox. They have played Minecraft in the past but have never been online with it, … Read More “Roblox VS Fortnite – A Parents Perspective on why lower age rated games are not always safer for children…” »
During a recent WhatsApp conversation about Roblox and account restriction settings with some friends I realised that as I am a parent of boys and several friends are parents of girls (as well as some who are parents of both), there will be different things that we are worried about in terms of online safety … Read More “Parents of Boys, Parents of Girls, Parents of Both” »
One of the most interesting topics and the one that raises the most discussion in our Free Online Safety Session that we deliver to parents is the information that can be gathered by sharing photos online. Let us first show you what information can be gathered. We were delivering an Online Safety Session at a … Read More “Sharing an innocent picture can give away your child’s location.” »
Are you questioning how much screen time is healthy for your children due to the conflicting advice from the industry “experts” ? As a parent of a 6 year old and an 8 year old I wonder about the impact of screen usage but to me its significantly more important what they do on the … Read More “Screen Time – A Parents Thoughts” »
Search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo (and lots of others) are the main way that information is retrieved from the Internet. Unfortunately, it is all to easy for inappropriate information to be retrieved as shown by the NSPCC article https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/parental-controls The article shows how searches on words that a child would be interested in … Read More “How to make your childs searches safer and more accurate” »
When you or your child browse the App store for an age appropriate app or game, (we will use app to describe both app and game in this article), you might assume that Apple have verified that the app is appropriate for that age group as per the Apple age rating! For example Splitter Critters … Read More “How do Apple determine age rating of an App ?” »
There are two main areas on the Internet that children can freely find inappropriate content. One is with a search engine such as Bing, Google, Yahoo etc and the other is YouTube. YouTube was founded by three PayPal employees as a video sharing website to allow users to share video content. On February the 14th … Read More “YouTube – A parents perspective.” »
As parents, we know there will be conversations that will be difficult to start with our children and parenting in a digital age means there is another one to add to the list! Engaging in productive and positive conversations with our children about “Staying Safe Online” is difficult but it is crucial to helping our … Read More “Start that “Staying safe online” conversation.” »
