It’s getting common for kids to resort to adult apps. Recently, Tinder got all the limelight for its notoriety amongst the teens who have been using this app for casual hookups. It’s saddening and heart-wrenching that parents have to see this, but kids as young as 13-year-olds are signing up for dating apps. According to […]
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The Art of scribbling down a perfect smartphone contract
If you are planning to handover a smartphone to your child, a smartphone monitoring contract could be a nice idea to mediate their first few years of cell phone use. This is a contract between you and your child that can teach them how to be a responsible and safe digital citizen. Following are […]
Taking care of your teen’s development in a pornographic digital age Part 2
In the part 1, we talked about how unsolicited internet access is one of the reasons why our kids are getting early exposure to pornographic content. We also talked about the impact of social media and dating apps aggrandisement. Today, we need to talk a little more about the hazards of the internet and how […]
Taking care of your teen’s development in a pornographic digital age Part 1
During time when our kids should be learning positive things, much of their energy is expended on the wrong stuff. Once confined only to the backroom of a video store and adults shops, is now as easily available as finding cooking recipes or streaming videos on YouTube. All you have to do is enter a […]
A word on parental control apps
Whenever I look at the tech around my kids, I see it more like a double-edged sword. One one hand, it’s a great virtual learning place, and on the other, it’s full of dangers and parental woes Internet offers higher intellect learning that develops your child’s brain at a blazing speed. If it weren’t for […]
Explosive teens versus oppositional defiant: the right way to handle your child
Recently, I have had a conversation with parents who were complaining about their kids’ inability to control/regulate emotions, to adapt and be flexible to any change of plans on their request. Some teens simply get overwhelmed under such circumstance, while others may burst into tantrums, arguments and and absolute resentment and disagreement. When you do […]
Testimonial: For a working mom, monitoring wasn’t a choice, but a necessity
It’s not anomalous to see experts and participants sit down once in a while in reminiscence of the beautiful childhood that they had—where they didn’t have to worry about anything like kids have to these days. In 2014, USA Today published a very interesting article about how parents, trying to keep a balance between working […]
What’s has made parenting more difficult in the last few years?
We knew that parenting wouldn’t be easy, but from last few years, it’s gotten even more difficult. There are reasons for this and our TMF team may have found out some of them. Take a look at these three important family problems that every parent is facing nowadays. Problem #1: Kids don’t share their problems […]
How monitoring helped parents catch their daughter’s predator
In January, 2016, Montgomery County Police ordered a search warrant for the digital accounts of an alleged child sexual predator. The mother, who we will refer to as Mary, found herself in an awe of utter dissonance, finding out that things wouldn’t have gone too bad, had she used Trackmyfone sooner on her daughter’s cell […]
Your emojiholic kids can get arrested for careless online behavior
The long and the short of it: If your kids are fond of using emojis, then they can get arrested. The Lowdown A twelve-year-old girl from Fairfax, Va., has been facing criminal charges for the use of bomb, gun and knife emojis on her Instagram account. The aforementioned caption was shared by the Washington post. […]