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By now you may have heard us talk about our son’s appointment to the Microsoft Council for Digital Good — one of 15 students chosen to serve as a sounding board and an ambassador, working with Microsoft to create a safer Internet. When our then 13-year-old son was applying for the council, he said, “Mom, they want to know about my life online. I don’t have a life online!” It’s true, we had said no to a smartphone and social media because we didn’t feel like these things were

1. Boundaries Boundaries. You need them. I need them. Your kids need them. They help us establish rules of safety and well-being, emotionally and physically. For the first phase of their life, you are the boundary setters as parents. But that transitions in these middle school years as you teach your kids how to draw their own boundaries about who and what is safe and healthy for them. That includes discussions about: Read our full blog post about boundaries here. Their digit

For those of us with tweens and teens, online safety is at the forefront of our daily parenting concerns. But what about parents with younger children? How important is online safety to those who are shepherding the tender hearts of preschoolers? We actually feel that a strong parenting strategy for keeping your kids safe online is best started before they even go off to kindergarten! During the critical years of discipline and boundaries (2 – 5 years old), laying a foundatio

I recently had the opportunity to share with a group of middle school parents about social media and app safety. Since social media and apps are constantly changing, we focused on key features that create risk in any app, such as inappropriate ads or location-identifying information. But among the most problematic issues that come up in just about every app are all tied to PRIVACY. And whenever you think about privacy… think about a word that permeates every human interaction