WOW! I had no idea it was this bad, but I guess it makes sense. With that sort of addiction, it highlights the inordinate level of importance teens and many others are putting on their virtual image. Although it can be important of course, and we probably cannot fight this trend, it’s important to bring…
A VERY interesting article, showing links between too much time on Facebook equating to: Stress Sleeping Disorders Depression Guilt http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2175230/Too-time-online-lead-stress-sleeping-disorders-depression.html The key takeaway is a strong recommendation to … … set limits on the time they spend in front of a screen or phone, and limit demands on their availability to avoid mental disorders The…
These are 4 basic recurring principles in guiding digital time for children: Start Early – Children need to understand limits from the start, its then expected Follow through with threats – Be careful what you threaten to remove, and do not back down if it has been banned. Time Limits – Discuss, Implement and Stick to…
Twitter is really slow to add any sort of parental controls, finally they are looking into exploring adding filtering for inappropriate content, but it seems pretty limited. http://mashable.com/2011/07/28/twitter-parental-controls/
Allow2 is also looking at helping with these sorts of limits! Wouldn’t it be great to embed controls on fast food intake into a general limitation system? That’s what we have done! http://www.healthyfamilyfun.org/fun-with-food/healthy-how-to-how-to-set-limits-on-fast-food/ If you want to find out more, stay tuned for our limited access beta and request tester access. This service looks to…
Here’s something interesting, I think this highlights why parents end up giving up. This parent has reported trying to use parental controls on their Mac to limit screen time, but then makes the comment: they watch the TV instead … sigh But then go on to explain the time limits on the mac are broken…
Here is a decent blog on how to “safely” allow children on to Facebook: http://www.helium.com/items/1660351-how-can-parents-help-their-children-use-facebook-safely The key things for me though, are “who has time?” and “how can we track this consistently?” or how about: “Who knows how much time is good or bad?” Sure there are guidelines as pointed out in this article, but there…
This article only lists 5: http://www.creditcardfinder.com.au/avoid-credit-card-over-spending.html But they missed one, not surprising as we haven’t announced it yet. Stay tuned for some pretty interesting ideas we have on how to help with this, particularly for the teens in the family.
It looks like the latest update to 10.5.7 seems to have broken OSX time limits in parental controls. Several reports are emerging: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2018656?start=0&tstart=0 http://mac.bigresource.com/OS-X-Parental-Control-Time-Limits-Broken-in-Snow-Leopard–J67KN3EAv.html http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=790056 But this is an example of a much older report (last year): http://forums.macnn.com/t/370370/parental-control-time-limit-not-working
Hey, club penguin is looking at adding a timer to the parent controls, keep a look out for this! http://www.clubpenguin.com/company/news/051608-new-tools-help-parents.htm