Parenting in the social media age has put raising children to a new, more challenging level. Thirty years ago, parents were worried about their children meeting strangers on the street. Today, technology has shrunk the world down to six degrees of separation. Parents do not just have to worry about their kids being out on the street—they also have to make sure that they are safe from unsavory characters online. But that is when things get tricky. Children, by nature, resist any kind of parental control. Take away their iPads and they would end up playing with your laptop. Lay down a moratorium on dubious apps and kids find other apps with friendlier names but similar content. Here, we give you practical tips on how to control your children’s digital life without being obvious about it. Activate parental controls on your child’s computer Free parental controls come built-in with Mac and PC computers. In Macs, activate the controls in System Preferences, under Accounts. In PCs, access the controls in the Control Panel. You don’t need to [...]
