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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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Epic Games to be sued for not warning parents Fortnite is allegedly as 'addictive as cocaine'
Roughly a quarter of a billion mostly obsessed gamers are battling it out in Fortnite, and there is a decent chance kids you know are among them.
How a Minecraft world has built a safe online playground for autistic kids
For autistic children, online social interactions can be just as fraught as those in the offline world. The community at Autcraft, which is built around a customised version of the popular game Minecraft, has set out to create a safe virtual playground.
'Sadfishing': parents warned about worrying new social media trend
Parents can never get too comfortable keeping abreast of social media trends. The latest? Sadfishing.
'What is Tik Tok?' Reese Witherspoon's hilarious dance lesson from teenage son
"Oh god," 15-year-old Deacon said.
I created a fake social media account to spy on my child
'I'm utterly ashamed of the way I handled the whole thing and I regret it from start to finish.'
Leading with trust: Why we let our teens have some phone freedom
Instead of keeping a kid in line, too much surveillance and monitoring can have the opposite effect.
The online privacy checklist your kids need you to have
There aren’t many resources out there to help us do online privacy checkups on behalf of our kids. Here's what to do.
The important conversation about Instagram you need to have with your teen right now
Instagram and ReachOut have partnered to make a comprehensive step-by-step social media guide for parents of teens.
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Want to be liked? Don't share 'selfies', share 'posies'
Post your selfie at your own risk.
When a smartphone takes over your child's life
I came home from a business trip to find my then-nine-year-old daughter fiddling with a sparkly new iPod Touch. When I asked my husband where she got it, he said, "She begged me to take her to the store and paid for it with her own money, so I figured it was fine."
Lack of sleep more harmful than social media for teens, study finds
But is it more complicated than that?
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