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Healthier Social Media Time

Sheltering At Home During the Pandemic Has Dramatically Increased Social Media Usage Among Teens and Tweens.  With the New School Year Arriving, Consider Stress-Free Ways to Readjust Your Family’s Habits To Get Back To Healthier Social Media Time. With children returning to school, parents and educators should start thinking about healthier social media times. We…

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Healthier Social Media Time

Prevent Excessive Screen Time

We frequently advocate for using technology to help protect against social media-related dangers.  And, preventing or reducing excessive social media use and excessive screen time is a great application of safe technology.  So, here is our latest tip.   Recently, Apple came out with iOS 14, which allows users to add widgets to their home screen.  A widget is…

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Prevent Excessive Screen Time

Tip of the Month: Physical Inspections

We know that it is very challenging to teach teens about both the lack of privacy and the permanence of their messages, posts, DMs, tweets, and snaps.  But, we have a way that will help you teach them…. As we remind you often, your teens are on their phones and social media on average 9 hours a day.  That…

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Tip of the Month: Physical Inspections

Tip of the Month: Block and Report

It is simple. It is intuitive.  It can make social media safer for us all.  But, most adults and teens are not doing it: blocking and reporting obscene, hateful, and threatening content.  Cyberbullying, hate speech, sexual harassment, propaganda are just some of the social media-related dangers that come in the form of posts, comments, or…

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Tip of the Month: Block and Report

Tip of the Month: Community Guidelines

Imagine an intervention that will help parents more effectively, and with less parent-child conflict, set rules and limits to prevent social media addiction and protect against social media-related dangers (cyberbullying, harassment, trafficking, etc.)  In every one of our parent workshops, at least one parent will share their experience of trying to limit their teen’s social media use.  Undoubtedly, when the parent imposes some guidelines or…

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Tip of the Month: Community Guidelines

How to Fight Social Media Addiction: Family Phone Time Challenge

Too Much Screen Time Effective strategies for limiting teens’ screen times is one of the top requests we receive from parents, because, as everyone knows, teens are using their smartphones, mostly for social media, a lot.  A U.S. survey from 2018 showed that 70% of teens check social media several times a day, up from…

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How to Fight Social Media Addiction: Family Phone Time Challenge