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5 Ways Social Media is affecting your Child's Body Image
Today, we’re going to explore five ways social media is harming your teen’s body image, and more importantly, what you can do to help it.
5 Dangerous Social Media Challenges Happening Right Now
For every harmless or well-intentioned challenge, there are darker social media challenges, too. What’s more, with how prominent the internet is, it’s easy for your children or teens to get caught up in these challenges.
3 Instagram Risks To Children
Instagram is popular. In fact, there are over 1 billion active members in 2021. Now, while the average age-range of those users is 25-34, Instagram’s terms of use allow anyone over 13 to have an account. However in our view, just because it may be allowed, doesn’t mean that it is necessarily a good idea!
Snap Map - IMPORTANT INFO
A "Stalker's Paradise"? With Snapchat's latest update, the app has introduced "Snap Map" - this new feature allows Snapchat users to see each others location whilst using the app...
Filtering YouTube Content
We had a good deal of requests recently from parents concerned their children accidentally (or not so accidentally) come across adult material on YouTube. Luckily, there is a very quick and easy way to activate YouTube's "restricted mode" and we have created a very short tutorial for it...
What you need to know about Yellow
Check out our app guide to Yellow where you will find out what the hype in the media is all about...
is Instagram ok for kids?
I believe parents will want to make that decision based on some facts. So, before we share our opinion with you, here are 5 facts for you to consider:
Sometimes, NOT sharing is caring...
what can you do as a parent to reduce the risk of your child's pictures and videos finding their way outside of your circle of "friends"?
First things first - social media privacy
I am often asked by fellow parents what the single most important item on the "managing my kids online safety" agenda should be: