After all, if we can track every conversation, every call, every text message, and every step our kids take, we can protect them from the harsh reality outside, right? I created unGlue because I believe the best way to teach my kids about anything is to give them the tools to learn how to do it themselves. Technology has a place in helping parents and their children become smarter about the digital world — both its benefits and its dangers.
It is our role as parents. Technology can help but we should build an open, honest, and trusting relationship with our children, which will lead them to us when they experience something inappropriate online. Check out unGlue at the app store and on Google Play.
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Their digital footprint just changes the potentially harmful longevity of choices made when stretching boundaries as first time social users. Caroline Knorr, parenting editor at Common Sense Media, worries that child monitoring apps "may prey on parents' fears.
Most kids use media safely. Stranger danger is not the biggest risk for kids. She considers cyber-bullying to be a far more common and greater risk. But she thinks social media monitoring technology is unlikely to catch that problem. If you rely on technology to monitor your kids or prevent them from engaging in online risks you are getting a false sense of security.
Any determined kid can defeat any technology you put out there. Even if the company says they can't, they can. Furthermore, Knorr says parents need to recognize that kids "believe that their phones are sacred and private. Instead of using technology to snoop on kids' digital activities, she urges parents to discuss boundaries and appropriate online behavior with their children and to "parent around the device" by "doling out features sparingly" when the phone is new.
She suggests opening up more features as the child demonstrates the ability to "follow the rules and meet expectations and understand consequences.
Jen Nessel, a communications coordinator for The Center for Constitutional Rights in New York and mother of an 8-year-old boy, agrees that fear drives a lot of parenting decisions. She thinks parents these days need to "relax a little," observing that "the world is far less dangerous now than it was in the 'paleolithic' pre-digital age, by any measurable standards. To a certain extent, she believes that kids need to be free to make their own mistakes: "There's a lot of stuff out there we would rather they not be exposed to until they're ready, if ever.
It's perfectly normal to put on the parental controls on the computer, on your phone, on your television.
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