Teaching Kids to Be Kind Online
Principles for respectful relationships at home, school, work and community.
Author: Carolyn Jabs
7 Ways to Make YouTube Kids Safer
To keep your kids safe while using YouTube Kids, consider taking advantage of these options
7 Ways Technology Can Bring Your Family Closer
Here are a few ways technology can enhance family togetherness.
Tech Gifts for People Who Truly Need Them
Not all children have easy, early access to the digital world.
What to Do About Cyberbullies
Like old-fashioned bullying, cyberbullying involves a willful, repeated effort to humiliate, harass or threaten another person. Here's what you can do to prevent it.
Smartphone Addiction: How Much is Too Much?
Total abstinence from a smartphone isn’t realistic, but there are ways to become more deliberate about when and how we use our phones.
What to Consider Before Using GPS to Track Your Kid
Before buying a GPS tracker, consider these questions.
Tech Habits of American Families
In a few key areas, parents seem to be ignoring best practices and following the path of least resistance
8 Ways to Spark Summer Reading
Help your kids discover the pleasures of reading books.
Protecting Your Family's Devices From Hackers
Precautions consumers should take.
Clearing the Clutter: Choosing Where to Donate
Donating items to benefit others.
Deciphering Teen Text Messages
New slang is often harmless, but parents should monitor texts that fall into these areas.
Does Spending Time Online Destroy Empathy?
Six ways families can engage with online communities that actively encourage positive social values.
Help Your Kids Decide What News is Worth Sharing
Help your child evaluate what he or she finds online and form sound opinions by asking a few key questions.
Digital Resources To Keep Your Family Healthy
Get the scoop on reliable health information sites where your research can guide you to informed decisions that will protect and improve the health of your family.
Charity Begins at School
Help your children give back to others through these websites that connect families with schools, classrooms and individual students in need.
Common Sense Rules for Pokémon GO and Other Games
New games that fuse virtual and tangible worlds produce fun as well as risk. Keep these guidelines in mind to help protect your family.
Tips for Connected Caregivers
Consider these tips when talking to your caregiver about how and when it's OK to use a smartphone.
Keeping Family Smartphones Secure
Minimize some of the heartbreak involved with losing a cell phone by teaching these good habits as soon as kids get their first phone.
Straight Talk About Online Harassment
Cyberbullying may seem like something that happens to other people, but statistics say otherwise.
Raising Kids Who Can Code
Nine out of 10 parents want children to learn computer programming. Here are age-appropriate ways to help your children learn that skill.
New Guidelines for Tots and Technology
The AAP revises guidelines on screentime babies and toddlers, acknowledging that screens are everywhere.
Protecting Your Family’s Medical Information
Get into the habit of following these rules to help secure your family's medical records.
Resources for Online Searching: When Google Won’t Do
Help your children move beyond Google to get the most of online searches with these tips from a tech-savvy mom.
11 Apps to Help Families Feel Calm and Relieve Stress
Check out these apps to help parents and kids feel better and release from the pressures of life.
Charitable Websites for Every Day of the Year
Browse these websites for a wide variety of ways for your family to get involved in doing good, throughout the holidays and beyond.
Is Your Cellphone Hurting Your Relationship With Your Child?
Many parents are conscientious about making rules for when and how kids can use technology. But what about rules for parents?
Should Toys Talk to Kids?
Do new talking toys offer educational potential for children or do they limit a child's imagination? Here are some questions worth asking before you shop.
7 Ways to be Cautious When Sharing Photos Online
Tips for balancing the benefits and risks of photo-sharing on social networks.
How is Social Media Changing Our Schools?
Is social media a powerful educational tool or a dangerous distraction?
10 Apps and Websites that Will Help You Connect to Nature
Connect with technology to inspire a deeper involvement with nature.
How Social Media Can Shape a Girl's Body Image
Parents may not be able to dominate social media conversations about appearance, but they can and should comment.
A Parent's Guide to Emoji, Acronyms and Emoticons
If you feel like reading text messages has become an exercise in code breaking, you're right.
The Pros and Cons of Anonymous Social Media
Armed with a basic understanding of anonymous social media, you'll be in a better position to talk to teens about it.
Making the Most of Infographics
Guidance on how to extract meaning from infographics.
How Old is Old Enough for Social Networking?
Things to consider before letting your child sign up for social media sites designed for adults.
Disconnect to Rediscover Playtime
Why open-ended, child-led play is crucial to development.
Social Media Do’s and Don’ts When Applying to College
Tips to polish your teen's online image when applying to social.
The Three Es of Education
At school, children certainly spend time learning the three R’s, but what about the three E’s?
Ages & Stages: 0-5: Tiny Techies: When to Introduce Kids to the Computer
A computer in every crib! For a while that seemed to be the motto for those who thought it could never be too early to learn about technology. Fortunately, common sense seems to have prevailed. Although technology can be part of a healthy childhood, it should get at most a sliver of a young child’s attention.
Would Your Child Recognize An Ad?
Marketing today can be tricky to navigate for parents and even for web-savvy kids.
Growing Up Online
An in-depth look at what information your child is sharing and exposing to others on the Internet.
Ages & Stages 11-18: Parental Controls for Cell Phones
Some questions to ask yourself and cell phone carriers about parental controls, cell phone safety and the capabilities and functions, before signing up your child for his/her own phone.
Ages & Stages 11-18: Follow These Rules to Prevent Hearing Loss
Experts have known that consistent exposure to loud sound, including amplified music, erodes hearing. Tips on how to prevent hearing loss.
The Littlest Social Networkers
Everyone knows teens are preoccupied with Web sites like MySpace and Facebook, but now children as young as 5 have social networking Web sites just for them.
IM Goes to School
plz hlp b4 i 4get how 2 rite english If you have a child who loves Instant Messaging, you can probably decipher that sentence: Please help before I forget how to write English. IMspeak, the cryptic language used in Instant Messaging, is phenomenally popular, not only with teens and pre-teens, but also with the millions of adults who now use it to communicate with friends, family and even co-workers.
Ages & Stages: 11-18: Should Kids Shop Online?
As families hurtle toward the holidays, many busy parents will shop online. But what about kids? Should they be using the Internet to buy gifts for family members or even things they want for themselves?
Ages & Stages: 11-18 years: Is Your Family’s Computer a Zombie?
At Halloween, no one is surprised to find miniature zombies at the door. Give them treats and they go away. A zombie computer is not at all cute and much harder to dismiss. Yet, according to the FBI, over one billion American computers have been converted into zombies, robots that follow the commands of remote and invisible masters.
