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How to stop children making in-app purchases
Simple account safeguards and a sound method of letting older children spend their pocket money can stop little ones purchasing big on mobile devices - whether inadvertently or deliberately.
Screen time and children
Concerned about how much time your kids are spending in front of screens? We have everything you need to know about time limits, why it's so inviting and how to cut back.
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Controversial apps for kids make cosmetic surgery into a game
A petition calling for the removal of cosmetic surgery apps has gathered more than 119,000 signatures.
What parents need to know about Fortnite
Your children may be obsessed with it, or just asking to play it.
Not deleting Facebook? Here's how you can protect your children
It becomes almost routine: Snap a picture of the kids, crop and edit it, share it on Facebook. Repeat.
The teens getting their sex education from YouTubers
A handful popular Youtubers are leading the way in online sex education aimed at teens.
The problem with mummy blogging
"We feel like we have a right to them, like our consent is their consent."
One in four teens have received a sext
Rise in sexting, but experts say it is mostly normal.
We must ban mobiles from school playgrounds to stop cyber bullying
Cyber bullying is taking young lives but the tragic deaths are preventable.
The app gap: what cyber psychology tells us about kids and screens
Have I been doing my child a disservice by digitally amputating her from the world of apps?
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Teens who spend less time in front of screens are happier
In recent months, Silicon Valley executives have been speaking out about the purposely addictive designs of smartphones and social media, which make them hard to put down for anyone, but particularly teenagers. Now, a new report puts numbers to the warnings:, tying a sudden and large drop in adolescents' happiness with the proliferation of smartphones, and finding that the more hours a day teens spend in front of screens, the less satisfied they are.
YouTube star Logan Paul apologises for posting video of suicide victim
Paul's 15 million followers are made of many young fans.
Answers to some of the most Googled questions of 2017
Australia's top Google searches range from slime and sport, to cryptocurrency, covfefe and hurricanes.
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