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 […]
Your Kids Too Are Probably Using Their Smartphone to Cheat in Exams
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 […]
Facebook Is Funding a Nationwide Cyberbullying Research and It’s Amazing
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 […]
Teen Apps in Focus: Ask.fm—Bold and Risky
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 […]
Peeple: An App That Rates People—Why Parents Need To Be Concerned?
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 […]
Now You Can Detect A Bipolar Using an App, Apparently
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 […]
Navigating the Digital World—How Parents Can Participate In Their Kids’ Online Safety
Do you remember the first time you used internet? I bet you do. Let me tell you mine’s. It was an Intel Pentium 1 Desktop that was the size of a mini fridge. Too many fans and massive boards, with much of everything wired—most of them tangled across my feet. Amongst that agglomeration, I got […]
Monitoring Your Teen’s iPhone Or Android Smartphone
At TrackMyFone, we believe that parents should have a complete knowledge of everything that formulates a big portion of their child’s life. This is vital to the protection of the children. Parents need to know how their kids are using that major facet of their lives, for now, and for the future. Smartphones come under […]
How to Identify a Cyberbully or Cyberbullying Victim
Most of the blogs that talk about cyberbully would hardly look at teens as cyberbullies. But the reality is—teens can be victims as well as bullies. We know that it’s hard to imagine your child as a bully, but kids who are bullies didn’t land from the space. There is this old idea that says […]
Hazing and School: A Sinister and Not-So-Simple Duo
Hazing is not an old problem; it’s actually an ancient issue that persists in human behavior since the inception of this world. A report has revealed that initiation rituals related to hazing can be traced back to 2000 years. Maybe not existent since the aboriginal times, but it surely is a contemporaneous yet classical issue. […]