Kids Technology, Games & Apps

The important conversation about Instagram you need to have with your teen right now

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Post your selfie at your own risk. Photo: iStock

Want to be liked? Don't share 'selfies', share 'posies'

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When a smartphone takes over your child's life

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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.

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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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How parents can help keep their children safe

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Oversharing: Girl was disturbed by what happened, yet still uploaded the footage onto YouTube.

Online and out there: How children view privacy differently from adults

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Boys and gaming: finding the balance

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Top 10 iPad apps for kids

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Lack of sleep more harmful than social media for teens, study finds

But is it more complicated than that?

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Kyle Giersdorf won the Fortnite World Cup solo finals in New York, taking home $3 million.

Stop worrying and learn to love Fortnite

The most important thing to know about games such as 'Fortnite', isn’t how much time your kids spend online, it’s what they’re doing there.

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Fortnite fortune: 16-year-old champ wins $4.3 million in game's first World Cup

American teenager Kyle Giersdorf won $4.3 million on Sunday after taking the top prize in a tournament in New York for the popular online video game Fortnite.

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Grace Cox, 12, surrounded by devices in her Paddington home.

A new way to deal with the device dilemma dividing families

A new book called "The Dip" helps parents understand the dopamine effect of devices.

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I deleted all my social media for one week. This is what happened

I was isolated from friends and family. But I knew it was for the best, it had to be done.

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Children quickly took to the robot and developed a relationship with it.

How a robot called Pink helped school children bring an Aboriginal language back to life

Maitland Lutheran School, of 240 students in rural South Australia, found a way to teach children programming code and an old Aboriginal language. The answer was Pink, the robot.