I’m often asked how I feel about smartphones in schools. It happened again. Another internet safety presentation where I was put on the spot to answer a question about kids having personal devices in school. This time, it came from the principal at the high school […]
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I received an email from a college freshman, who permitted me to publish her message using a different name. Her parents gave her a smartphone in middle school but didn’t give her social media until well into high school. This decision had a profound impact on
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“Chris, what’s the best phone for kids?” (Updated May 23, 2024) We receive this question all the time! And now that there are multiple kid phone options, parents are hungry for guidance. When Lauren was going through the tween years (now just graduated high school!), the
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Summer camp season is about to begin! In just a few short weeks, many kids will be exiting school and some will begin a summer that includes mission trips, work camps, NTS Camp (if you’ve not seen this one, you have to check it out!), or
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Many families are excited for an active, travel-filled, relative-visiting summer. We love all of these things! But each of these activities creates unique digital risks that awesome parents should monitor. NEW PLACES Create Greater Summer Internet Risks In Michigan, between Memorial and Labor Day, many families
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A Smartphone-based Childhood Ruins Kids “Smartphone-based life, it turns out, alters or interferes with a great number of developmental processes.” – Jonathan Haidt In his article for The Atlantic, Haidt explores the shift from flip phones to smartphones among kids in the early 2010s, noting that
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Pew Research Shows Fascinating Parent and Child Insights A recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, which involved 1,453 adolescents aged 13 to 17 and their parents, revealed some interesting insights. According to the findings, 72% of American teenagers indicate that they frequently or occasionally
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Where Kids Use Tech Dictates How They Use Tech Parents can’t control all of the doorways that exist for a child to access the web. Creating a teach-ready home is one thing, but how many other ways exist for your child to watch YouTube without you knowing?
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Everything Caregivers Need to Know about AI and Deepfakes Artificial Intelligence – AI – is developing rapidly. It can create efficiency with certain tasks, including content creation and research. It’s also creating new, extremely difficult problems related to intellectual property and exploitation, including children. The Pope,
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Smart TVs are just Large Smartphones! Completely updated: August 9, 2024 When I speak to parents, I ask them to take inventory of how their family members can access the Internet. This includes thinking about all the devices that can be accessed in all the places
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