Internet Safety Blog
Data Privacy Day: The Questions That Matter for Our Kids
By Lynette Owens January 28, 2014 Today is Data Privacy Day, an annual event intended to encourage everyone to understand how to protect their privacy online, an important cause in an increasingly connected world. While it’s an important day, every...
What We’re Reading: Net Neutrality and Schools, Apple Refunds, Reporting Online Abuse, Useful Wearable Tech
By Lynette Owens Week of January 20, 2014 To help you keep up with what’s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we’ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we’ve found most useful over the past week. What have you been...
Day One with the Xbox One: What Parents Need to Know
By Lynette Owens Three years ago, I wrote about my family’s experience with the ground-breaking Xbox 360 Kinect. Despite all the issues outlined, we love it – it’s given us countless hours of fun as a family and with friends. We also have...
What We’re Reading: Online Safety Starts Offline, Google+ Email Invasion, Bigger Target Data Breach, Where The Teens Are
By Lynette Owens Week of January 13, 2014 To help you keep up with what’s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we’ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we’ve found most useful over the past week. What have you been...
What We’re Reading: Teens Not Addicted to Social, Snapchat Hacked, Facebook Sued, Best Digital Citizenship Blogs, Family Contracts Work
By Lynette Owens Week of January 6, 2014 Happy near year! To help you keep up with what’s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we’ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we’ve found most useful over the past week. What...
2014 Hope: No More Misunderstandings
By Lynette Owens Apple recently released a 1 and a half minute video named “Misunderstood”, showing a family convening at the home of the grandparents for the holidays. The star of the short film is a teenage boy who for most of the video is lost...
What We’re Reading: Parents – Don’t Panic, Twitter Flips on Blocking, Social Media War for Teens
By Lynette Owens Week of December 16, 2013 To help you keep up with what’s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we’ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we’ve found most useful over the past week. What have you been...
What We’re Reading: Social Media & Body Image, Pediatric Social Media Guidance, Junk Food Ads as Apps, Gifts Without Screens
By Lynette Owens Week of December 9, 2013 To help you keep up with what’s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we’ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we’ve found most useful over the past week. What have you been...
What We’re Reading This Week: Social Stalking Lesson, NJ Social Media Literacy Law, Kids’ FOMO Fuels New Apps
By Lynette Owens Week of November 25, 2013 To help you keep up with what’s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we’ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we’ve found most useful over the past week. What have...
