For all its flaws, Tinder is at least intended for adults. Now a new dating/meet-up app, Yellow, is targeting teens as young as thirteen years old. Yellow’s tagline is “Make new friends” but the app’s reviews suggest many users have much more than friendship on the brain. The app format is exactly like Tinder– see […]
The New York Times published an excellent article about talking to your kids about online pornography. These were our favorite parts of the piece. All experts agree it’s important to have an ongoing conversation with kids about online porn and sexuality. But how do you start that conversation? On opening the dialogue about pornography with
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Video games and online gaming have only increased in popularity since the early days of Pong. Unfortunately, not all gaming content has stayed as innocent as ping-pong. Many mainstream games are growing more and more violent. While parents and educators worry about the effect of intimate interaction with violence, albeit artificial violence, gaming apologists have
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Swipe left. Swipe right. Double tap. Level up– diagnostic complete! Researchers have developed a game for the iPad that allows them to analyze a child’s hand motions to determine whether or not the child is on the autism spectrum. The study, published in the Nature group journal Scientific Reports highlights an aspect of autism
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In a recent interview with online magazine Mirror, Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, outlined his family’s screen time rules. No phones for the kids until age fourteen, no screens at the dinner table, and an evening curfew for the internet. Gates’ three daughters are 20, 17, and 14 years old now, so presumably the rules are
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From the first smile to the last graduation, mothers love to announce and record children’s achievements on social media. Doing so keeps friends and family informed and compiles a journal of sorts for future perusal. Social media can even be a support system for frustrated moms. However, a recent study highlights a dark side of
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A recent study suggests elementary school aged children’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes may be affected by large amounts of screen time. The paper, published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, surveyed about 4500 children between nine and ten years of age and measured various health markers like height to weight ratio, fat
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TechAZ, Arizona’s technology news source, interviewed our co-founders, Spencer Thomason and Eric Vance. The feature covers everything from Clean Router’s recent Venture Madness win, favorite drinks, running a business, scorpions, and Arizona dry heat. Check out the excerpts from the feature below! Spencer and Eric’s favorite things about living in Arizona? “The cost of living
Parents love how Clean Router records the browser history of all connected devices and provides daily email reports to keep them in the loop. In our latest update, we have improved this feature to make it even more user-friendly! Clean Router users can now select which devices are included in the web browsing email
As a parent, your responsibility is to know what your kids get up to online. But how? Browsing history can be erased within seconds, and recovering deleted history is next to impossible. Even if a computer’s browser history is intact, any incognito browsing will not appear. Standing over your kids’ shoulders 24/7 is an unattractive
