by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps, Internet Safety, Tips and Tricks
While parents are still freaking out about Snapchat and the Momo challenge, the truth is there are some risky apps for kids that can fly right under our radar. Some of them seem completely innocuous — while some are clearly bad news waiting to happen. To be...
by Cool Mom Team | Internet Safety, Social Media, Tips and Tricks
We couldn’t create an Ultimate Guide to Digital Parenting without including tips about how to keep your kids safe on social media. After all, for our tweens and teens, the Internet is social media, and they could sooner give up the games, the videos, and even...
by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps, Internet Safety, Tips and Tricks
As part of our Ultimate Guide to Digital Parenting, answering parents’ top questions about family technology, we’re sharing the best services and tools to help you monitor your kids on their gadgets. While most routers, phones, tablets and computers have...
by Cool Mom Team | Gear + Hardware, Internet Safety, Tips and Tricks
We can’t tell you how much debate we’ve seen over the simple question, “when is my kid ready for a smartphone?” It brings out nearly as much stress, passion and well, sanctimony, as questions about breastfeeding or sleep training. Well, after...
by Cool Mom Team | Internet Safety, Tips and Tricks
As part of our Ultimate Guide to Digital Parenting, we know that a top question from parents is the best way to set screen time rules when we’re at home. And we’ve got so many helpful approaches for you! Because bringing gadgets into your family’s...
by Kristen Chase | Internet Safety
If you’ve been on Facebook over the last few days, you’ve probably been bombarded with no shortage of articles about the Momo Challenge. Admittedly, it looks pretty disconcerting on first glance, and after the 15th, you kind of want to toss your phone out...
by Kristen Chase | Internet Safety
In what seems to be a never ending issue with Facebook and privacy, the latest news is that Facebook has been receiving data from apps from users who do not even have a Facebook account. And one of the 11 apps that has been discovered so far, is one of our favorites:...
by Kristen Chase | Internet Safety, Tips and Tricks
Keeping our kids safe and healthy is our number one job as parents. And with so many of them using smartphones and other electronic devices, their online safety has become a huge part of that. At Cool Mom Tech, we have always provided parents with helpful advice and...
by Cool Mom Team | Internet Safety, Best Apps
As parents, we try to keep an eye on what our kids are doing online to help keep them safe, but we can’t be over their shoulders all the time. Nor should we be! That’s why we’re always grateful for online parental controls of all kinds, and why...
by Cool Mom Team | Games + Gaming, Internet Safety
If you thought your kids tech-savvy as toddlers, it’s amazing to see how quickly they pick up video games when they get a little older. They know what’s hot and what’s not faster than Mario with a super star power-up. Turns out there are tons of...
by Kristen Chase | Internet Safety
The good news: most teens know that sexting is a crime. The bad news: older teens are less likely to think sexting will have negative consequences. All this from a new study about teens and sexting, conducted by researchers at Boston University and the University of...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks, Internet Safety
As Twitter has just informed all 330,000,000 of its users in an apologetic but so far underreported post, you should really change your Twitter password right now, this very second. Not to be alarmist — but out of an abundance of precaution. Evidently, a bug...
