Holidays are just around the corner! Along with jingle bells, tinsels, charity drives and everything else that comes on the minds of the kids to ask for from Santa. While some parents shop around for hours, sifting through every possible item to present their kids with the perfect gift, some parents may have already considered […]
Nearly 25 years ago, history’s first text message was sent by a man names Neil Papworth. In 1992, the text message that read “Merry Christmas” was sent by Papworth using a PC to his friend’s phone. Over two decades, the humble text messaging has evolved as SMS, magnanimously enduring as the best and most popular […]
What’s parent’s biggest nightmare in this time and age? Finding out that your kid has been catphished by some stranger online—posing as a teenager—who has even met your kid and later, you find out that your child is even a victim of sexual assault. It may sound harsh and blatant, but the reality is—online sexual […]
Just 11 months ago, a video streamed over internet that took everyone by storm—a video by a father whose daughter was bullied. Diedra, an adopted and an African american child, who received several messages containing bullying and racial slurs. The bullies were from her school who had sent her messages using a very famous social […]
When conflicts between parents and kids uproar, the usual onset of alienation and segregation, between the two, starts to appear. Parents presume that their kids need to learn manners and therefore, the only solution to that is by not communicating with them, cutting on their pocket money, or deprive them of their cell phone or […]
It may come as a surprise to most of the parents that their kids cheat in exams or for quizzes in school. But this new study makes it pretty clear—Parents underestimate their children’s ability to cheat in exams, as only 3 percent believe that their kids cheat, whereas, 35 percent of the kids do actually […]
There is an intense study being carried out in U.S. on cyberbullying. It’s not the first time that research has been done on this issue. But the important thing about this study is that it’s conducted by the Social Media Giant Facebook. The peculiarity of the situation can be understood from the fact that the […]
For our kids, social media apps are just like outfits—a new one every other day. It’s not easy for parents for this exact reason to keep tracks on every app their kids use, and the type of content that they are exposed to on these social media apps. This oblivion can lead to anxiety and […]
A new application is still on its way to hit app stores late this November but has already attracted a lot of controversy even before its release. Peeple is the first of its kind, which let user to rate other people. It works just like Yelp, except that it doesn’t rate restaurants, hotels, businesses or […]
Health apps are gaining some popularity, especially after smartwatches came into the business with health sensors like heart rate monitors, gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer etc. while we have these dedicated sensors each one for a specific purpose, there is a lot that can be learned through tracking the variation in the vocals of a person that […]