Category: Tech

From online oversharing, to gaming chats and school apps, today’s children are building a digital footprint from the day they’re born.

We uncover the biggest cybersecurity mistakes parents make—and how to fix them.
How do online scams target kids?
Why should you stop clicking on sponsored links?
Why is Google a problematic search engine?
How much damage is done when you post photos of your kids on social media?

Whether your child is in preschool or heading off to college, this post is packed with actionable strategies every parent needs.

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Your child might think they’re chatting with a friend.
They’re not.
They’re talking to AI, and there are almost no rules protecting them.

Learn why chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Character.AI i are uniquely dangerous for kids. Especially lonely, anxious, or neurodiverse children.

This isn’t science fiction.
This is happening in homes right now.

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Does your child completely loose their %$# when something even mildly scary comes on the screen? Me too. So it is a real gamble when we turn on the tv, and even more terrifying to spend a fortune on an unknown movie in the theater.

We are here to help!

Here’s our list of favorite films for sensitive kiddos.

I know I always say screen less… But research indicates that there is a big difference in our brains between time watching a movie, versus scrolling a quick-form video platform like TikTok or Instagram.

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We are counting down our top six episodes of the Screen Less Play More podcast!

Screen Less Play More is the go-to parenting podcast for families who want to raise confident, curious, healthy kids in a digital world. If you’re worried about technology, cell phones, screen time battles, video games, social media pressure, or how tech impacts your child’s mental health, behavior, and attention, you’re in the right place.

Each episode features experts who help parents create healthy tech habits, set realistic phone boundaries, and build a calmer home with fewer screens and more connection. We also dive deep into the power of play—free play, risky play, outdoor play, imaginative play, and reading—to help kids develop resilience, creativity, and independence.

Whether you’re raising toddlers, kids, tweens, or teens, this podcast gives you practical tools, research-backed strategies, and hope for raising children who thrive both online and offline.

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I know that you want to make it a magical and memorable Christmas or Hanukkah. But please, do yourself and your child a favor: do not buy them a smartphone as a gift. (And please tell Santa to hold off as well.)

Reasons include: increased suicide risk, exposure to pornography, decreased attention, health problems, and more!

Tune in each day from now until Christmas for 50 reasons to delay buying your child a phone.

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It’s not like your 12-year old boy wakes up one day and decides to be a woman hater.

It often starts with memes. Kids trade texts with thinly veiled misogyny, homophobia, and racism and pass it off as humor.

Then they start watching “self help” videos on Youtube about getting fit, earning money, and attracting women.

That’s when it starts to turn dark…

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Is Snapchat safe for kids?, is Snapchat safe, online safety, internet safety, parental controls

I created a fake Snapchat account under the name Tiffany, said I was 15, and made my avatar look like a cute teen girl.

I honestly expected that I was going to sit through an hour of mind-numbing tutorials about lip plumper and then BAM– a predator was going to strike-up a conversation with me in the chat.

Not so.

I was offered a completely different flavor of inappropriate that I was not prepared to see…

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Would you let your teen get behind the wheel of a car without taking driver’s ed? No! Then why are you handing them the entire internet without sufficient training?

Pre-teen and teen tech classes are coming soon!

Tweens and teens will learn the tools to make smart, safe choices online.

Kids will learn how to avoid scams, sextortion, pornography, cyberbullying, and phishing. They will learn the pitfalls of social media and video games, smart phone etiquitte, and how to create healthy screen habits.

Students will be empowered with knowledge about AI, how to spot deepfakes, and how to avoid…

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Why are kids choosing screens over playtime, friends, sports, and school? Why are boys wasting away in basements across the nation instead of thriving?

Psychologist Richard Freed reveals how Silicon Valley’s secret science of persuasive design is ruining a generation of children. He explains the equation used by the psychologists at Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and others to keep us all hooked on screens for as long as possible.

It’s not your imagination. Social media and video games are engineered to be addictive! And it’s a secret sauce that Big Tech does not want us to know about! But the Screen Less Play More podcast tells us what we can do to keep our kids safe and how to untangle…

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“In all my years of doing this since 2016, I have never worked with a single family that eliminated screens or significantly decreased screens and went on to regret it.”

“Every single one of them saw a brand new child who slept better, ate better, conversed better, socialized better, did better at school,” says Michael McLeod, executive function specialist at GrowNow ADHD.

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